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Sunrise on pluto

Winner of Hunger Mountain's 2019 Nonfiction Contest

"Sometimes you picture what it must be like on Pluto. 

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You picture the stillness. 

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You picture that special kind of silence that pounds beyond the ears, into the airways, past the base of the throat— a choking kind of silence. You consider how cold it must be. A cold that is not a tidal wave, but a shock, the kind of cold someone becomes "exposed to" rather than "experiences," the way a person can be exposed to a virus or a flesh-eating disease..."

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NINJA ASSASSIN

Finalist for Ruminate's 2020 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize and The Chattahoochee Review's 2020 Lamar York Prize.


Published in Levitate's Issue 4.

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Finalist for New Ohio Review's 2020 Nonfiction Contest.


Winner of Under the Gum Tree's 2020 Northern California Writers Creative Nonfiction Contest. 

 

 

 

Featured on Stories on Stage Davis October 17, 2020 podcast. 

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