The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

by Caitlin Rozakis

Everyone knows that unicorn hide is so last season, or whatever.

I figured the girls would want to pick out their ritual daggers themselves.”

By the time Aria is an adolescent, she and her peers will be more than capable of killing grown men, and burning down towns, and any other number of things that your kinsfolk would consider a dangerous affront to reality.”

You want to go send her to try to fit in somewhere she will never belong, where we can’t help her.”

This guys rude

Vivian had to do better. Aria deserved better.

Dude calm down. So much guilt

“We did have trouble the first year Google Maps became popular—it kept sending people through here, but then people didn’t want to be here, so we ended up with a traffic jam of about fifty cars stuck in an endless loop before someone figured out what was going on.”

“They said I was dressed like a peasant girl and I couldn’t be in their group and I said I had princess dresses and they said it didn’t matter and I would always be a mangy wolf with no manners.”

Damn

“They didn’t show up on film, but digital captures them fine,” Madhuri said. “Something about mirrors. Same thing with vampires. Don’t try to use a DSLR, but a mirrorless camera works great.”

Vivian had hardly been delighted to find that the gender dynamics she remembered from her youth persisted regardless of generation or ability to cast fireballs. Of the room of thirty-odd parents, only two were dads.

And Aria had to go and ruin it all, like always.

Damn shes 5

“Because this time, when the monsters came, I got to be on the kids’ side of the door.”

No matter how much she did, there was always more to do, an endless fractal of work to make people think better of her, none of which particularly brought her joy.

So much of parenting was surreptitiously watching the other parents around you and trying to decide whether you were being normal.

“Well, in that case, perhaps we ought to adopt all three of you.”

Awww

“So they all follow you because…” “Because I’m their grandmother.” She sniffed. “And because you’re terrifying.” “Well, naturally.” Her mouth stayed firm but her eyes glinted with humor. “The two are not mutually exclusive, and as far as I’m concerned, should go together.”

Daniel did not help. He’d taken one look at Aria’s pathetic little tail as she scuttled by to her room and rounded on Vivian. “What. The. Hell.”

I hate Him

“I understand that you’re too scared of not being liked to stand up to a bunch of bullies.”

Dude fuck him

A purple wolf head burst in fireworks above her. It was small, no bigger than her fist, and kind of lopsided. But it was there. Aria’s eyes grew huge. “Mommy? Mommy, you did it!”

Aww

But every time she went to open her mouth, she imagined how he might react. Dismissive. Horrified. She wasn’t sure, but she wasn’t willing to find out anymore.

“You think I’m avoiding connections because I think I don’t deserve them.”