Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. Her stories have previously won the grand prize in the 2019 Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Contest, been shortlisted for the 2021 Uncharted Magazine Summer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Story Award, and received an honorable mention in the 2021 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. You can find her slinking around NYC bookstores and on Twitter at @_aleksandrahill.
The taxi pulls away from the curb with a wheeze of exhaust, lifting the edge of my cape and rousing a lone, unraked leaf from its slumber on the yellowing lawn. Down the street, a child laughs, her bicycle weaving down smooth asphalt flanked by identical red brick facades. She is too far away to […]