Jersee Hogue

The Bogfrog Cycle

It has been eleven years and the bogfrogs were finally grown. The realization did not fully settle on Menthe that morning, nor the next. The realization did not settle until a large frog unhinged its jaw and swallowed one of her cows. She had snapped up the bogfrog, taking care to crunch it before it shot its tongue down her throat and choked her. That’s how her nestmate died many years ago.