Jaye Nasir is a writer from Portland, Oregon, whose work blurs, or outright ignores, the line between the real and the unreal. Her poems, essays and speculative fiction have appeared in many small publications, both local and international, including Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest, Santa Clara Review, and Antithesis Journal.
Isaiah doesn’t remember the wings, but he believes in them because of the knots of flesh on his back: six scarred, lumpy outgrowths of muscle left by a surgeon with shaking hands. His mother dresses ...