Potion
by Ryan Van Ells
The stew looks delicious. My stomach rumbles. I look at the babysitter.
“Not yet,” she says. “It needs mandrake root.”
I hand her one. “Now?”
“Not yet. It needs sage.”
I hand her the bottle. “What about now?”
“Not yet. It needs lizard guts.”
I reach for the lizard, his stomach already slit open. I struggle to reach it with my feet tied, but I reach it and hand it to her. “Now?”
“Not yet.”
“What else do we need?”
“The eyes of a young boy.”
I look around the kitchen. I don’t see a young boy. “Where are those?”
Ryan Van Ells
Ryan Van Ells is a queer lawyer and author of dark fiction from Wisconsin. Their work has appeared in October Screams and other anthologies.
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