Alison Jean Lester is the author of the novels Lillian on Life, Yuki Means Happiness, Glide, The Sound of It, and, as A.J. Myrth, Murder at Palito Point. She has also published a memoir, Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying, and a story collection, Locked Out: Stories Far from Home. Her short fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, Good Housekeeping, On the Seawall, Ecotone, and Synaesthesia. She lives in England.
When Crenshaw shoots Anneke, he’s within arm’s reach of me. I watch my hand grab him by the back of the neck. My body follows through, and I keep moving. He loses his balance. I feel the base of his skull stretching the web between my thumb and pointer for a second of resistance, and […]