Got my contributor’s copy of A capella Zoo in the mail today, and oh, man. Good, good stuff. The issue is gorgeous, and I’m in some good company: stuff from J.A. Tyler, Ben Loory, Kyle Hemmings, Audri Sousa, Gabe Durham, Greg Gerke, Christina Murphy, and a whole bunch of other awesome writers.
You can buy a gorgeous print copy of the journal here. Or, you can wait and read it online here when the stories are put up.
In the meantime, here’s a brief excerpt of my story to get you all curious-like:
The shut-out sun led to the coldest spring on record in North America since the Little Ice Age. Gas prices, coal prices, the prices of wood and wool—they skyrocketed that April, as it became apparent that it wasn’t getting warmer and the sky was still more black than blue. The poor were perishing in record numbers, whole families found frozen, huddled together in dark, iced-over tenements.
After a while, it became common to see strange snow angels here and there. Dead children splayed in dreadful poses, wingless and blue and covered in ice. The crows would circle in frustration, bewildered by the slow rate of decomposition and decay, unable to peck at the eyeballs hard as glass.
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