It came from Ivy Grimes
Ivy Grimes’s story “Ennui Tea” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 1 October 2021. I must have been feeling ennui while drinking tea, because “ennui tea” came to my mind first, and the story of a young woman learning magic at a goth coffee shop followed. I imagined how great it would be to have a goth coffee shop nearby and to live in a town where everyone mopes and reads poetry all day. Yet …