I Read Stories: Unprecedented Weather Patterns by Bethany Jarmul

 

Unprecedented Weather Patterns by Bethany Jarmul in Gone Lawn

Their voice was taken from them by their mother and sealed in a pot by their father. Everyone complimented them on quietness and stillness in their childhood.

As an adult the pot is still there, waiting.

Read This: Tiny story that moves inevitably to a crescendo
Don’t Read This: The metaphor is obvious, yet opaque