Austin Bunn is the author of The Brink: Stories (Harper Perennial) and his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The 2010 Pushcart Prize Anthology, Zoetrope, WBEZ, Michigan Public Radio, and elsewhere. He wrote the script for the film Kill Your Darlings (Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics) and has written screenplays for Twentieth Century Fox and LionsGate. His recent short documentary In the Hollow has played twenty film festivals. He is an Asst. Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
Mother, I have seen such marvels. Like the ocean aglow at night with a cold green fire and a fish with a child’s face and two fleshy whiskers. (No man would eat it. We blessed the creature and tossed it back.) I’ve seen a corpse with golden hair in a boat set adrift; his eyes were the slits on a newly born kitten.
