When I was little, my grandmother would tell me stories of beautiful witches luring young boys who strayed too far into the forest. “Sirens of the wood,” she’d say to me. “They want to eat you for supper and swallow your innocence!”

Naturally, I prayed that I’d run into one.

Liam Lloyd-Hughes is Welsh and a ninteen-year-old English Language & Creative Writing student at the University of Chester. He doesn’t have a website, so he instead recommends supporting each other.