“Finally the sirens crest the howling winter, wailing off-key and plaintive like a wanderer lost in borderless tundra. She’s nauseated by the sound, and she opens the back door a crack to let the wind in. Snow melts into her clothing in dark pools, and the pain of the cold shuts out the gradual paramedic rumble of boots and murmuring voices through the front door, across the living room, up toward the negative space where Dessie lies. Annie plugs her ears and waits.”
My short fiction piece ‘Empire of Light’ will be featured in the Winter 2013 edition of Cardinal Sins. You’ll be able to read the complete text on their website following publication. As for the work itself, it’s a short tale of loss and the brittleness of hope set in the last days of a brutal winter. It is excerpted from Lakeland Empire.
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