I Read Stories: She Is Beautiful by Grace Safford

 

She Is Beautiful by Grace Safford in Crow and Cross Keys

The lady of the earth dances to tend the crops and then she vanishes into a patch of ground that the local boys dare each other to walk on. And then one day she can’t get back through the ground. So they try to find out what is wrong.

Because something is wrong.

Read This: For some beautiful and subtle writing
Don’t Read This: The metaphor is not subtle