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Wild roots and tamed branches
I raised myself in the forest behind our house—an unwanted child no one cared for. Wounded knees and scratched shins remind me of the tall pines teaching me the first lessons. I collected dirt under my nails and petals in my pockets. I wrote stories before anyone knew I could write. I read them to my dolls, my only audience that ever truly listened. I mixed crushed violets and rainwater in chipped jars, creating secret potions that would turn me beautiful, that would make people love me.
By Imola Tóthabout a month ago in Poets
The Museum of a Lost Girls Life. Winner in The Forgotten Room Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.
Marie Wildapple spent the first ten summers of her life in the embrace of Veilwood Valley. She arrived there first in the house of Aunt Gabrielle as a toddler with chocolate smeared cheeks and grass-stained knees, trailing after a mother too young to properly belong to anyone, including her own daughter.
By Imola Tóthabout a month ago in Fiction
Médea's Recipes for Life. Winner in Maps of the Self Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.
The book was waiting where I left it when I came home from the funeral: on my kitchen table, wrapped in brown paper and tied with a red velvet ribbon. My grandmother never wrapped gifts like that. She preferred wax paper and flax string, that could be repurposed later like leftover stew.
By Imola Tóth2 months ago in Humans
