“The morning after she said no to the woman she might have loved, she was accosted by her left elbow.” Winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Review Award for Flash Fiction . Selected by final judge Thea Prieto .
A hotel waitress flees an act of violence and stumbles into a fabulist slice of desert between Egypt, Israel, and the Gaza Strip, where she experiences a sweeping vision. Second-place winner of LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction.
“Her pupils sat expansively in her eyes, dark lakes on a marked but emptied landscape, the tracks on her forehead ending at the edge of the deep.” Winner of the Calvino Prize , selected by Brian Evenson . Read it in Salt Hill . (And check out the UK-based Sein und Werden , which published an earlier version of the story in its Pharmacopoeia issue.)