Amy DeBellis

Amy DeBellis is a writer from New York. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and can be found in X-R-A-Y, Write or Die, HAD, Pithead Chapel, Monkeybicycle, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Read more at amydebellis.com.

A Long Dream

Amy DeBellis

Twigs snap under my boots like thin, frozen bones. Behind me, the wind is hurrying the fog across the darkness. I glance one last time over my shoulder, back to the village—its warm orange glow, barely visible at this distance—back to the house where my family prays pointlessly over my soul. Then I turn and […]