A witch stole our only lemon tree from the backyard. She rode on it, shoving the last ripe lemon into her toothless mouth.

A frightening, nonsensical sense of helplessness woke me up.

Auntie hovered over me and I remembered that real life is scarier than the witches of our dreams.

Azarin Sadegh, a former student of the late Les Plesko, is working on her 125,000 word novel, The Suicide Note.