“An Offering to the Forest” by TS Porter The dryads survived. Humanity came, with fire and axes, smoke-belching machines ever larger, and chemicals increasingly caustic, but the dryads survived. The great forests were felled, the fae retreated, and many gods died, but the dryads remained. They learned new words for fear—clearcut, feller-buncher, defoliant—but they never … Continue reading Halloween Microfiction: An Offering to the Forest by TS Porter