Pet

by Akwaeke Emezi

Adults were like that so much of the time, inflexible when they thought they had something to protect.

* I like breaking away from notion that adults are always right by virtue of being adults. I think Fifth Season did this too. Sometimes the adults are wrong too. I like when the kids know they are right. It not being childish or hubris.

You want many things, you are full of want, carved out of it, made from it, yes.

What if you thought about what was happening instead? How does that change your wants?

I liked how changing the framng would make it easier to push through her guilt and fear.