The snake who would not bend
The story behind the story Artist Dawn von Flue and author Robb Fulcher wander through one of Von Flue’s landscapes from The Snake Who Would Not Bend. Photo by Nichlaus von Hulsebus The snake came to Robb Fulcher in the dark of night. Fulcher was dreaming. In the dream, the snake appeared. He wasn’t your typical snake. He was a snake with a story to tell. Curiously enough, the name of the snake was something Robb had already thought about in his waking hours. “I had this acquaintance who was this really skinny, stiff guy, really nice, but I thought of him as The Snake Who Would Not Bend,” said Fulcher, an Easy Reader news editor, stand-up comedian, and newly hatched children’s book author. “His arms were always straight down his side. He gave the impression of being locked inside his own body.” Fulcher woke knowing the snake’s story. It had the feel of an old folk tale, like a story that had been told through the ages. But the snake was a real, live, breathing character hissing in Fulcher’s ear. And his story had not yet been told. “Once there was a snake who would not bend,” Fulcher later wrote. “His friends slithered around on the warm hard ground. They looped their bodies…
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