Night of the Hats

  So You Think This Might Be A Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado in Hex Literary Your journey begins with...   ...and then a list of check points, ending with all of the above. This is the key to this story, that although designed as a checklist, one which you can pick and choose, merely by reading the options you conjure them into being. But by being given the choice you are drawn in. At every moment you could turn away, choose not to check a mark off. Choose not to don the iron shoes, choose not to leave the van. Choose not to walk until the world turns upside down and blooms like a strange forest. Read This: Elegant tiny story in clever form Don’t Read This: Just very brief phrases shorn of context