Keturah and Lord Death

Keturah and Lord Death
At 16, Keturah is a poor peasant girl who constantly ponders her future. She has always been different from the other girls of the village and has unique but unrealized gifts. She has been raised by warm and loving grandparents, experiencing firsthand what a truly happy marriage is all about. The teen is committed to finding a suitable husband so she, too, can be happy but has not yet been successful. All this changes for her the day she follows the legendary hart deep into the forest and becomes lost.

From Ms. Secord:

Although related in the first person, I found that the story to be almost fairy tale like in it's prose and the part about the lemon meringue pie made me laugh, as I really wonder if the origins of that pie started that long ago. The descriptions of the village, the onset of the Plague lend an interesting slant to the story. Did you find the story symbolic at all? And just who was Lord Death? Do YOU know him?
Muy-hah-hah...