Tag: life

• Apples

  October 22, 2025

  2025, Issue 1

  family, fantasy, fiction, life, literary magazine, short story, writing

  My father always said I had witches’ eyes. “Fickle green and full of secrets,” he would hiss right before he slapped my face. His hard heart cracks one early morning at the bakery. He falls into the oven, and when they find him, his body is charred and smouldering. The village only mourns the ruined…