
This selection, chosen by guest curator Heather Leigh, is from Your Strange Fortune by Chloe N. Clark, released by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in 2019.
This piece was selected by guest curator Heather Leigh in honor of the gamer and streamer Epic Insanity, the best ally amongst some of the worst monsters. RIP 2021
Boy Meets Monster
There are so many stories
about those who go out
into the world and save it.
Of King Arthur and Beowulf
and Odysseus and all
those seventh sons of seventh sons.
What, though, of those boys
who see the monsters and think
nothing of them? Who shake
hands with devils? The ones
who look at pictures, under horrific
headlines, and think that no
one should be punished for
a single mistake? Returned
to lore, to fable, we try
to remember the boy
who fought monsters
because they were so easy
to spot.


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