Author: Sara McKinney

  • I Appear Missing

    After the pill that wrecks your life, you wake up poisoned on the salt flat of yourself. Your body no longer works the way it should but instead spasms, tears, throbs with the pain of cellular dissolution. There is no blood to wipe off your face, no open wound to tend or bandage.

  • A Yizkor for Charlottesville

    It’s about being Jewish in the midst of *that event* in Charlottesville, and the first sentence is “So, here I am walking around with a skull in my purse.” How can you not click that link?

  • Shedim

    This starts on the first day of a women’s retreat. The whole story feels a little precarious, as though it could go off in one of a few directions: failed relationship, family nightmares, or something much more sinister: That night in my dream, I sit on the back deck of the Fairfield house, tall and…

  • The Children

     Like Stephen King’s take on The Chrysalids, in ~750 words. It’s short and shocking. Read it now, it’ll only take a couple minutes.

  • Mordent

    It’s shocking and unpredictable, about a successful musician whose life starts to spiral in frighting ways. Be warned, there’s suicide in here: The week that everything went wrong started with a fight. This is what you expect me to say, what I wish I could say because saying it would give what followed a neat logic, the…