Amelia M. Burton

Amelia M. Burton is an emerging fiction writer and a recent graduate of Smith College. She writes queer fantasy and science fiction, and has a particular passion for metal women or women in metal, whether they’re knights or robots. You can find her on Instagram: @ameliambwriter

A Seamstress Joins a Bodice to a Skirt

Amelia M. Burton

The best part of sewing a garment is pressing the finished seams. The glide of the iron over parallel stitches, two lines a quarter inch apart. The coy slip of the edge rolling under itself. The joining obscured. My hand follows the iron, satin clammy with heat, then reverses back over the seam, skin licking […]