“Today is a special day. Anne and I get to skip school and attend a memorial for someone who has died. Anne thinks it is our mother, but I’m fairly certain our mother has been dead many years.”

Read Skyler Melnick’s "Merge" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

I've just finished reading "Sister Cycle" by Skyler Melnick ( @skyskkyy.bsky.social ), and it's a beautiful, fun, and wonderfully written short story. :) (My favourite turn of the phrase: "the precariousness of the chandelier" 💓)

Go read it here! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/sis...