Today we present a story from Melissa Embry. Melissa is a former journalist living in Dallas, Texas, whose short fiction has appeared most recently in Stupefying Stories and Jake’s Monthly Anthologies. Her fantasy short story, After the War, is scheduled to appear online in The Lorelei Signal in October and in Lorelei’s print magazine, Mystic Signals, in November 2013.

When not writing fiction, she says she mouths off on Facebook and blogs.