One-As-All

This poem is about a boy’s first love. He loves a magical forest creature! It’s about the events of ‘And All Her Paths Are Peace.’ Jessie is the 18-year-old protagonist. At the story’s start, Jessie’s best friend has left her. Ashleigh is the 'fox girl’ of the poem. Ashleigh is not half-girl, half-fox. Neither is she a blend of girl and fox; she’s simply a teenager whose face was magically transformed by a mall witch. She still has very human features, but the fox traits— thanks to the witch— make her look wild and feral. In the story, 19-year-old Ashleigh flees her arguing dad and a rough home life. She visits Jessie’s farmhouse for two weeks. They’re both so starved for friendship. She becomes Jessie’s new best friend. James is Jessie’s twin brother. He spends the first nine weeks of the covid pandemic playing video games in his bedroom. Then an actual girl who is not his sister walks into the house, and she has the face of a fox! James falls completely in love with