Girls And Cryptids Are The Same

by Briella Thomas

photos by Chandler Eckert + modeled by Gabby Iwaszkiewicz

Cryptids and girls are the same. They think of freedom and guilty pleasures.

They think of liberty and endeavors. Hide their faces in darkness and shadows.

Peek through doors and past the sill of windows. Covering themselves to hide from peering eyes.

Covering their ears to avoid hearing lies. Lies being told about who they really are.

Lies that blanket reality like tar. The world had made assumptions about who they are.

The world had assumed they knew their hearts. Why are cryptids scared of being hunted like game?

Why are girls scared of being hunted like game? Cryptids and girls are the same.