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Her family brings their best to the table and talk unreservedly in their first language. Rviv cannot keep up with the conversation. She understands the words, the phrases, but not why they make her parents laugh or grimace. They reference a place Rviv has never seen and a history she has not lived. The stranger and her parents commiserate about living in such a strange country. Together they laugh at the way the Cuialo smile with their teeth and eat meat with their hands. Her parents wait with excruciating patience to ask what news of home.

This was the mood the second time my late guest arrived. They were still dressed as a witch but this time wore a cloak of ambiguous cut that masked it from a casual observer; the slashing diagonal weave might be a witch’s style, or it could be the even horizontal line a breath-person would wear turned askew in the weather. Something in the ambiguity called to me, an enticing possibility, though I was still unwaveringly comfortable folding my clothes into the straight hems and smooth lines of second-childhood. I nodded as they entered but waited several moments for them to settle before appro...

Breath, Sinew, Witch, Friend by Anaea Lay. Where the River Comes From by Kaitlyn Zivanovich. BCS 319: Where the River Comes From by Kaitlyn Zivanovich.

Ree snored in her cot, and Loaf listened to the snoring till it got heavy and guttered, and that’s when he started to search around for what he could take with him. He was working at it, taking care to be quiet, when a coyote howled from somewhere near, somewhere dangerously close, and for a second he forgot he was inside a house, and he forgot coyotes don’t hurt people on account of they’re too small.

Holding Back the Darkness by Stephanie Burgis. Little Red Hands by Jonathan Louis Duckworth. BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness by Stephanie Burgis.