I am so excited to let you all know that my SF story “For Love and Country” is now available to read in Luna Station Quarterly. This is a story about Eva, a woman who has lost her entire family to war, struggling to get to safety. The problem is the only country taking in refugees wants the cream of the crop and anyone who has survived war long enough knows the trauma of war doesn’t stop when you leave the country.

One of my favorite quotes from the story, though there are so many good ones:

“Survivors carried invisible burdens—the guilt of their survival, what they did to keep it—in their minds and the rest in their lungs.”

It’s not all doom and gloom, the story is also one of friendship and love. As Mister Rogers famously said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” For Love and Country is about finding the helpers through the haze.

If you have a subscription to LSQ and give my story a read, let me know your thoughts in the comments! Or if you want access to my story, shoot me a message and I gotchu 😉

https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063

I also had one of my free-verse poems “Meat in the Machine” come out recently in Gathered Here Today: https://graveside-press.com/product/gathered-here-today/ by Graveside Press.