the troll's tale

she had a full set of brains but lost it, listening to bad advice and the troll who was her awful husband for a year. I told her not to do it but she did, saying she'd work things out over time. she's lost now in the city if bad dreams. it seems no one can find her anywhere. yet we hear her pass at night down the street -- sleepless, calling for the troll whom she loves, still searching for a man who never was.