Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes | Tor.com“Among the Thorns,” by Veronica Schanoes, is a dark fantasy taking place in seventeenth century Germany, about a young woman who is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father many years earlier, by a vagabond with a magic fiddle. About our art, we imagined the young woman as a tree. Her hair are bushes with thorns that imprison the vagabond with the magic violin.