Grimm Curiosities

by Sharon Lynn Fisher

While some doorways are more magical or purposeful than others, any sort of door may take you to any world, so long as you believe it will. Which is far more difficult than it might sound.

But the two of us were at odds from the time I was old enough for school. I supposed that was the way of it with fathers and sons, especially eldest ones. So many expectations, they must naturally clash with a young man’s desire to go his own way. Even now, my father rarely trusted me to do the right thing. For good reason—we often had different ideas about what that was.

“Then you and I will find another way. Because nothing I would gain by losing you could make my life worth living.”

He’s a charmer for sure, but I couldn’t help feeling it was all shine on a shadow.”