Andrew Kozma

Andrew Kozma’s fiction has been published in Escape Pod, ergot, The Dread Machine, and Analog. His book of poems, City of Regret (Zone 3 Press, 2007), won the Zone 3 First Book Award, and his second poetry book, Orphanotrophia, was published in 2021 by Cobalt Press.

Mr. Balloon

Andrew Kozma

I was six when I first met Mr. Balloon. The day before, my parents had taken me to a local carnival. I gorged myself on cotton candy, fascinated by how it vanished instantly in my wet mouth. I begged to fire the fake guns at the shooting range because I had my heart set on […]