The Truth About Owls

2015

• Strange Horizons
• Listen to Anaea Lay read the short story
• Archive.is

Anisa's eyes are black, and she no longer hates them. She used to wish for eyes the color of her father's, the beautiful pale green-blue that people were always startled to see in a brown face. But she likes, now, having eyes and hair of a color those same people find frightening.

• My reading notes on the blog