Beyond The Vines
A Dark Fantasy Short Story by Jinapher J. Hoffman & Special Illustration by Destani Hoffman
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9 min readNov 19, 2021
The whispers start as they always do. Soft but loud. Bind to my eardrums with sweet promises of adventure, of desires met, of a place beyond the vines. I don’t tend to abide by their little wisdoms — Kill the gardener, they say, sacrifice your goldfish — but today feels different…
