I Read Stories: Some To Cradle Some To Eat by Eugenia Tryantafyllou

 

Some To Cradle Some To Eat by Eugenia Triantaffylou in Lightspeed

She is the daughter of ogres. In the fairy tale the children lured into the house survive, get away thanks to cunning of Little Thumb. But what of the ogres’ own children?

Because of the danger she pushes friends away. makes herself look dangerous. But she’s not the only one with a terrible family. Not the only one with secrets to hide.

A story of fairy tales and secrets, of children trapped with abusive parents and their own dangers. Of being different, and also queer, and also afraid of what might happen, of their own power.

Read This: The horrors of ogres and abusive families intimately braided
Don’t Read This: People eating their children is not for you