I pulled this piece from publication due to allegations of harassment by the editor-in-chief of Queen Mob’s Teahouse.

Reprint in Small Loves: A Queer Microfiction Anthology edited by Madison Scott-Clary from Hybrid Ink canceled due to press closure.

The crows spoke with the voices of dead children. They swooped through the air, black smudges against a tapestry of blue, cawing words torn from fevered throats. One landed on a branch outside Mei’s bedroom. “Don’t want medicine,” it croaked. Mei opened the window and shooed the bird away. In the dim light of morning,…