Author

Dorianne Emmerton

Dorianne Emmerton writes speculative fiction that is often queer and/or inspired by her environmental anxiety. She is co-curator of the bi-monthly Brockton Writers Series and organizes the Author's Showcase of the annual Bi Arts Festival, both of which are in her current hometown of Toronto. She grew up in small town Northern Ontario amidst rock outcrops, jack pines, and pigeon-sized mosquitoes. Her short stories are published in anthologies such as Nevertheless (Tesseracts Twenty-One) and Ink Stains Volume Seven: Decay, as well as online recently in the Bronzeville Bee and The Fantasist.

We Float

We float. Jenny says she's only floated before while in water. There is no water where we come from, though Jenny says it was plentiful in her land. She drank it. She swam in it. She washed with it. Jenny complains about the lack of washing, although she says our rurr "hydrates"…