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Miah O’Malley

Miah O’Malley is a writer and artist living in the Ozarks. Her work blends speculative fiction with ecological and medical realities, focusing on bodies navigating care, risk, and systemic failure. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MS in Nursing from Loyola University. Her work has appeared in Radon Journal, Phano, and Exposed Bone. She can be found at www.miahomalley.com.

Boreal Encroachment

Miah O’Malley

Morning light scraped across the table, cold and thin. Naya set the ampoules down one by one, their glass walls warping the light into convolutions. Brittle hand-blown borosilicate, one slip away from shattering. Each neck sealed with spruce bark and resin wax, the air inside held trapped. Inside was breath—oxygen, nitrogen, and the volatile fringe […]