Faith Merino

Faith Merino is the author of Cormorant Lake, which was longlisted for the 2021 Center For Fiction First Novel Award. Her short stories have appeared in Sundog Lit, Asimov's Science Fiction, F&SF, The Indiana Review, and more. She lives in California where she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Santa Ana Winds

Faith Merino

September 13, 1969 They come from the desert: two girls and a boy driving south through the belly of Los Angeles at midnight. They sit in a silent, Benzedrine focus as they pass through reds and oranges—taillights streaking Highway 101; the corona of a car fire in Benedict Canyon; their faces blanching as they pass […]