Sandra Gail Lambert is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness which explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and desire. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, Orion, The Sun, and The Paris Review. Her collection My Withered Legs and Other Essays is upcoming from The University of Georgia Press. Lambert is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
The coldness of space clings to the alien ship. It lands where earth-moving machines disemboweled a humid Florida swamp rich with the nests of birds whose feathers were an iridescent white, whose feathers lifted into waves of lace. The birds are gone from here now. Instead, soil is piled high and flat to form the […]