After the End
When the story ends—the hero’s hands wiped clean, / sword gleaming above the mantel— / there are those of us who find the belly of a castle / is no place for children who grow / like weeds, like vines, like yellow straw.
Jessica Cho
Jessica is a Rhysling Award-winning SFF writer of short fiction and poetry. Born in Korea, they currently live in New England, where they balance their aversion to cold with the inability to live anywhere without snow. Previous work has appeared in khōreō, Flash Fiction Online, Fireside, Apparition and elsewhere. They can be found at semiwellversed.wordpress.com or on Twitter @wordsbycho.