Author

Mishell Baker

Mishell Baker is a 2009 Graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop and now oversees Clarion's official blog at clarionfoundation.wordpress.com. She made her fiction debut in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #47, and her next two stories will appear in Redstone Science Fiction and Electric Velocipede. Her Twitter feed is under @mishellbaker.

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Break

When I shook Femi's hand in the office break room on my first day, everything faded: the snot-colored linoleum, the nauseous fluorescent lighting, the wheezy hum of the refrigerator. Instead of "Nice to meet you," I heard myself say, "You are a fragment of heaven." I pulled my…