Excerpt

You come across a forest on your morning run. Certainly,
it wasn’t there yesterday. You would remember such dark,
deciduous trees in the middle of the city. But how does a
forest just appear from one day to the next? Scents of sap
and green and life waft out, hypnotic, tantalizing. You find
yourself at the threshold. You enter.

About the author

Jordan E. McNeil [she/her] writes fairytales, rages at videogames, and lives with a cat that may secretly be a witch. Her work can be at The Arcanist, Liminality, and Mermaids Monthly. She can be found on Twitter, @Je_McNeil, and ko-fi.com/JordanEMcNeil.

About the Cover Artist

Pauline Hsu loves food, photography, and, most recently, sewing clothes for her kiddos.