I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Grandma Harken is a stone cold badass and if one day I could be even a tenth of the woman she is I'd be utterly content. 
 This novelette has everything the discerning fantasy reader should need. A feisty old lady who refuses to fall asleep so hard she stabs herself with a ladle, Koschei the deathless, very ripe tomatoes on white bread with a pinch of salt and a dab of mayonnaise, and train gods and their priests. All things that I regularly look for, and finally, here they all are in one short story. 
 The writing is witty and evocative and playful, the story is tightly spun, and the characters are begging to be read more and more. I must say again, because once is not enough - Grandma Harken is everything I want to be in life and I aspire to be her.