Girigo Journal
Field Notes from the Wish-Recording App
Lore, folklore, language, and the long literary history of asking for things you should not ask for.
Tonight's echo
“Let the city not flood tonight.”
The toll
It did not flood. A small canal in a neighborhood already scheduled for demolition silently overflowed; nobody who had grown up beside it could later remember the canal's old name, only its number on the map.