They Return
SEPTEMBER 2025, SHORT STORY, 2600 WORDS Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground. […]
Eleanna Castroianni is a writer, poet, and oral storyteller from Greece. A cultural geographer by training, Eleanna tells speculative stories from the margins of history and the far futures of the Anthropocene. Their written work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fireside, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, The Stinging Fly, and elsewhere.
SEPTEMBER 2025, SHORT STORY, 2600 WORDS Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground. […]
Your grandmother was made of paper. / Millimeter-thin, she could slip in / and out of closed doors, unnoticed.