Poetry by Stephanie King
In the spirit of Lord Byron and Halloween, our founder Adam Morgan launched a microfiction contest called the 1816 Challenge, awarding one horror story, of 50 words max, $100, and four finalists publication in our journal. Here is one of the four finalists.
We loved the holidays each year, except when the number of someone we loved came up. I thought about how happily I had celebrated in years past as I lifted a forkful of what was left of Jonathan to my lips, how I would miss his pealing laugh.
Stephanie King is a past winner of the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, with stories also appearing in CutBank, Entropy, and Hobart. You can find her online at stephanieking.net or on Twitter @stephstephking.
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