Author

Kailyn McCord

Kailyn lives and writes in Akiachak, Alaska. She's applying for her MFA in Fiction, and has previously been published in The Believer, The Rumpus, The Healing Muse, Tahoe Blues, and BlazeVOX. Her ideal literary lunch dates include Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Tim Winton, and Kurt Vonnegut. She prefers a natural leaven.

Lucky Cherry Luck

The cannery above waist level was spotless. Stainless steel countertops shone under the fluorescents and machines hummed with an oiled speed. Jolene was lucky to work at such a fine cannery. She told herself that, when she arrived each evening and again each morning when she…