内容摘要：MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man illegally evade immigration agents is seeking donations to fund her court defense.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man illegally evade immigration agents is seeking donations to fund her court defense.

Even though Agnes loves the little lord whom she nurses and tends to, he also frightens her. What begins as small abnormalities — fingernails that grow too fast and the strong, unexplained smell of soil on the baby — transforms into something far more sinister as he grows into a forest of a man who brings pestilence and death with him wherever he goes.The narrator breaks from the story to address the passage of time and build tension. She dips into modernity, referencing plays and phones, and mixes up details so you’re never quite sure which pieces of the story are true and which are smudged or allegorical. Further thickening the haze, references to other tales are littered about, whether they be repurposed snatches of Greek myths and urban legends, or stories that characters tell each other within the narrator’s story.

Every bit the fairy tale writer, Theodoridou leans heavily on sensory nature descriptions and takes short asides for what would be considered platitudes if they weren’t so strange, and echoed in the narrator’s characters sometimes chapters or even lifetimes apart.The whole time, a sense of danger lurks but is not named nor faced head-on.Like a magic eye picture, “Sour Cherry” is a horror or thriller when viewed at one angle but, tilted ever so slightly, it’s a myth, legend or bedtime story. It’s a tale of buried pain personified as a curse, a beast, a pestilence that follows the family, the bloodline. The fairy tale style only serves to make the truths within it truer, methodically marching forward through highs and lows. The author perfectly captures how abuse is shrouded in inevitability, the way it’s so often left unaddressed in society, and the seeming impossibility of leaving.

“Sour Cherry” is beautiful and harrowing. With a writing style that had me mesmerized from the first page, Theodoridou has an amazing talent for storytelling that’s so effective that the ending — while predictable and maybe even unavoidable — still stunned me and moved me to tears.Sara Jafari’s “Things Left Unsaid” is a love-craving, tumbling tale of two Iranian British friends who first meet in high school — the self-skeptic and pessimist Shirin Bayat, and the traumatized Kian Rahimi.

Kian was 15 years old when his older brother, Mehdi, was incarcerated and blames himself partly for what happened. Shirin, for her part, battles anxiety and depression.

In high school in the northern English city of Hull, Shirin falls in love with Kian, her only close male friend, but she can’t open up to him about it. Kian feels the same about Shirin; he fancies her and imagines her lips on his, but kept it quiet.to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

“On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr. said“In my opinion these are victims just like January 6,” Martin said, referring to 1,500 people pardoned by President Donald Trump for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The arrests of Barry Croft Jr., Adam Fox and other anti-government extremists rocked the home stretch of the 2020 presidential election. Authorities said the cabal wanted to grab Whitmer, a Democrat, at her vacation home and start a civil war.Croft, 49, and Fox, 42, were portrayed as leaders of the scheme. They were convicted of conspiracy in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2022. Croft, a trucker from Delaware, was also found guilty of a weapons charge.