Short-Story Month 2012: Day 13, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

"He wagged a finger and laughed and said,

 'Gonna get you, baby'" [. . .]" 

Perhaps the story for Day 13 should be 

Little Red Riding Hood in order to set 

the mood for what might have been 

tomorrow's story, but instead, here's 

what she would call a contemporary 

retelling of that folktale by Joyce Carol Oates, 

"Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?"

In Video: Joyce Carol Oates talks about

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

(2:02 runtime)

"Where Are You Going, 

Where Have You Been?" 

by Joyce Carol Oates
(1966)

(For those  Joyce Carol Oates fans interested in seeing some of Oates's original manuscript pages  for her other stories, please visit the virtual archive at University of San Francisco. Also, if you missed Oates's winning of the 1990 Rea award for short fiction, see the NYT article.)