Magical Girl Eater

Angela Liu Uncanny 2026

“Always just. Always magical.” When the four of us first started working as Magical Girls, we penned the slogan in a McDonalds, giggling about how corny it sounded. Annie joked about how we’d still be calling ourselves magical girls when we were eighty, buckling on arthritic knees. “We’ll have to rebrand to ‘Magical Grandmas’.” We […] The post Magical Girl Eater appeared first on Uncanny Magazine .

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