A short story about speculating, interpreting, projecting, and storytelling

published in Joyland Magazine, November 2023

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“There was a story I had known as a little girl about the origin of birch trees: how they had been girls once too, princesses, and they had been trapped by an evil spell. Then a village girl—curiously a girl, not a boy—swam to the bottom of a lake and asked the lady of the water for help, and the birch trees turned back into maidens…”