Mandy Lange has won WestWord’s Hermit Crab Prize and the Writer’s Playground Short Story Competition. Her work is forthcoming in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and has been featured in wildscape literary, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more. She runs a homestead in her limited spare time, though her goats would tell you she should stick to writing. Read more from her at mandylange.com or m.m.lange on Instagram.
I think of my sister the way I think of marsh-mud wedged under overgrown fingernails. It was a game we played after Daisy killed Mama by being born. I buried something for ya. We raked the forest floor with scuttling fingers, took turns hiding treasures for the other to find. It was up to the […]