He traces in the new mud, silky and anemic, and the clay sticks to his finger. It hasn’t rained here in years; we’ve settled for building sandcastles until today. Clouds came then burst, drenching us, briefly carving
Jordan Hirsch, “After Now”
Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry while occupying the ancestral and current homelands of the Dakota people, Mni Sota Makoce. Her debut chapbook Both Worlds is out with Bottlecap Press. Her work has also appeared in Strange Horizons, The Future Fire, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, and other venues. Find more of her writing on jordanrhirsch.wordpress.com, and her thoughts on Bluesky: @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social.
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