What Haunts Us by Annie Phan

What Haunts Us

by Annie Phan

published in Rust & Moth, Autumn 2020

In the villages of my grandmother, they warn youof the child who beckonsyou to follow them deep into the forest,offers a heavy loaf of bread.You will choke on the stone in your throatand die hungrylike the little child.

In my hometown, they warn youof the woman in white who wailsfor her children along the arroyos,the ones she drowned by her own hand.La Llorona will pull at you to follow her.Maybe this ...