Author

Rachel Barber

Rachel Barber currently works as a case manager for homeless individuals in Phoenix, Arizona. Having studied Music and English at Gettysburg College, she enjoys playing her French horn and writing flash fiction in her spare time.

Calvera

It's a neutron star, he says to me, eyes always up at the night sky. We know they exist by what they emit. Nebulas and pulsars and white dwarfs and neutron stars--Emitt only ever speaks of lights in space. Looking out from the front stoop, where he sits on the rock of the steps,…