Contributor

Angela Liu

Angela Liu is a Chinese-American writer from NYC. She researched mixed reality at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design in Japan and now works in IT consulting and translation. Her stories and poetry are published/forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, The Dark, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, Cast of Wonders, khōréō, among others. Her debut short story collection, Beautiful Ways We Break Each Other Open, will be released in September 2024 with Dark Matter INK. Check out more of her work at liu-angela.com or find her on Twitter/Instagram @liu_angela

Salt Girl

Angela Liu

The sand garden glowed eeriest during the hour right after sundown, like the earth itself was churning out its last breath. For as long as Rika could remember, her father dragged a wooden rake across the reddish sand every morning as the sun rose and again in that uncanny twilight before he prepared dinner. […]