Chelsea Stickle is the author of the flash fiction chapbooks Everything’s Changing (Thirty West Publishing, 2023) and Breaking Points (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Her stories appear in Passages North, Fractured Lit, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and others. Her micros have been selected for Best Microfiction 2021 and 2025, the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2022 and the Wigleaf Longlist in 2023. She lives in Annapolis, MD, with her black rabbit George. Learn more at chelseastickle.com. You can read more of Chelsea's work here [100 word story], here Invisible City, and here Cheap Pop.
Before she’s born, the mother dreams of who she wants her daughter to be, and selects the perfect wooden box to compliment her own. After the amniotic fluid is wiped off, the mother places the baby inside. As she grows, her mother drills holes for her head, arms and legs. The box is so heavy that the girl cannot run… Read more →