Noa Covo is a teenaged writer. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Okay Donkey, Jellyfish Review, and Waxwing. Her micro chapbook, Bouquet of Fears, was published by Nightingale and Sparrow Press this July. She can be found on Twitter @covo_noa.
We feed the ghoul behind the elementary school crumbs of bread and throw sticks at it to make it dance. We watch its grotesque movements, our heads ducked down, squinting in fear, until our mothers call us for dinner,...