Aigner Loren Wilson is a queer Black writer of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and games. She serves as a senior fiction editor at Strange Horizons and has guest-edited issues of Fireside Fiction and Apparition Literary Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone Magazine, FIYAH, and more. When she’s not writing or editing for others, she’s learning, hiking, or loving on her fur babies—both human and animal. To check out her books, games, bread bakes, and other writings, visit her website. For weekly posts on the writing craft with exercises, check out her writing blog. Follow her on Twitter @ALWlikeahowl and Instagram @frekihowl.
She wasn’t at his funeral, so I took the van around to where I knew she was staying while she was in town. He always taught us to stick close to our home. It was her ex’s place, a rundown one-story with dead grass and an old plastic playground for some forgotten children.
