Author

Kristin Janz

Kristin Janz has published about a dozen stories in various online and print publications, including On Spec, Crowded Magazine, and Futurismic. She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2008. Although Canadian, she now lives near Boston with her husband, writer Donald S. Crankshaw, with whom she is editing and publishing an anthology of speculative fiction stories that engage meaningfully with Christianity (www.mysterionanthology.com). You can find her own website and occasional blog at kristinjanz.com.

http://www.kristinjanz.com/

The Workshop at the End of the World

The workshop's bright interior felt like a sauna after the numbing midwinter cold outdoors. The old man immediately took off his fur-lined hat and gloves and started unfastening the buttons of his greatcoat. His workers glanced up from benches and forge upon his entrance, but…