Apex Magazine Issue 70 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2015-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Jennifer Ironside lives in Ontario, Canada and she enjoys writing horror stories for children.

Her stories and poetry have been published in a variety of magazines, including Spider, Crow Toes Quarterly, Room, and The New Quarterly.

Follow her on twitter at @nonesuchorphans.

The Changeling Answer

Jarod K. Anderson

Stir up chains in a big pot.

Stick it on the stovetop at high heat.

Pepper in some silver dust and witch-hazel.

When the metal half glows

And your forearms burn from stirring

Dump it all into a sack with the thing.

Let the hot metal slither in like a snake

Down onto the limbs of your not-daughter

Your used-to-be son.

You can’t get back what it’s taken,

You can’t even kill it. Not really.

But that’s not the point.

You can remind them,

Those little men of dusk and leaf litter,

That we don’t always come unhinged in our grief

That there is anger in us more strong and biting

Than the raw wet thrashings of tooth and claw.

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