Unlikely Animals

by Annie Hartnett

Isn’t that the rule? The hero can’t die, at least not until the very end of the story.

You spend years thinking that you’re the golden girl, and you find out that you’re a giant grouper. A big ugly fish.

Sometimes magic might just be magic.

“I wish you didn’t have to die.” “Me too, Emmy. Me too.”

Emma would miss him so much.

We wished they could know how much we loved them, how hard we were rooting for them.