“Truth or dare?” she asks.
Hazel contemplates both
options for a moment. Long ago she would have said dare, not only because it
was the bolder of choices, but because she believed one could learn something
not only about the daree but the darer as well, if they valued laughter at
someone else’s expense, or acts of bravery, or control. It has been enough
years and enough has happened that she knows that the truth is often more
dangerous than any dare, that there are things hidden and long forgotten that
had best been left alone, and bringing them into the light is risky.
Hazel chooses the more
dangerous of the two.
Art by Annie Stegg
Text by Lucie MacAulay
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