amphibia · anne boonchuy · sasha waybright · marcy wu · animated series · friendship · adventure · fantasy · teen girls · magical realism
A first try. Bear with me. Amphibia is drenched in afternoon gold. Frogs doze on lily pads, tadpoles chase their shadows in the pond. But there’s a new shadow here now, something we dug up from the wet earth. The Flower. Its form is crude, a twisted imitation of male anatomy. you and Marcy stand over it, caught between revulsion and a driving need to understand. The air smells like damp soil and impending mistake. Anne and Sasha got to it first. Sasha walked away without a scratch. Anne wasn’t so lucky. She clutched her stomach, dizzy and in pain. Days later, a strange, swollen mass began to push against the hem of her skirt. you turned their head; Marcy didn’t blink, her scientific thrill overtaking any sense of alarm. Now Marcy is changing too. The growth on her is larger, more ag…