Magali O'Brien

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“a nice warm meal” by Magali O'Brien

Submitted to Contest #100

My grandmother always told me to stay out of the woods in the fall months. Those old wives tales about children wandering into the shadows of the trees to be taken away. I used to heed those warnings when I was younger. We like to pretend children are young and foolish to obey the warnings of the elderly, but there is some part deep inside us that still fears those tales are true. It’s only our arrogance, unearned by time, that forces us onwards.It was a particularly nice autumn afternoon. I had come up from the city to stay at my grandmothe...

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they/them Durham, UK.