Author
Leah Thomas
Leah Thomas is currently enrolled at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of the 2010 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop and a proud proponent of zombie equality, even if the zombie genre is a tired one. She wishes that writing blurbs felt less like trying to be witty and more like writing stories about the fantastical, and that steampunk rather than cyberpunk had become her generation's reality.
Rising, Falling
"Wait," Mother scolded. "We need to wind the bobbin first." Erin sat back from the sewing machine and crossed her arms over the seeping hole in her stomach. "Can't you do it for me?" Mother set Erin's hands back on the machine's turquoise hull. She rested her own decaying palms…
Shards
Now that they have come for me, banging on the trapdoor above us, there are many things I want to tell you, Son. I want to tell you that I loved you, regardless of what I am. You should know that despite all you may learn in school, or from books, or from other children, I was…