"The Strawberry Festival" in Occulum

My new flash fiction "The Strawberry Festival" is in Issue 2 of Occulum. I love the aesthetic of this journal. Editor Arielle Tipa has gathered a dark constellation of writers around her with these first two issues, and I'm happy to be a small part of it. Here are the first few lines from the story:

It was red through and through. I reached my hand deep in the inner leaves. An ant crawled across my knuckles dragging a broken leg. I tried to help by pulling the leg off, but I broke the ant in half and its two pieces went round and round trying to find each other. Red ones are the sweetest. This one was a little soft in the middle and the sweet was almost rot. I fed a piece to the dead ant.