Susan L. Lin just completed her MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts, where she spent her days photographing toy dinosaurs and eating free pie. Her novella Goodbye to the Ocean was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Gold Line Press chapbook competition. Her short fiction recently appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ghost Town, and MadHat Annual. Visit her on the web at www.susanllin.carbonmade.com.
Whatever happens tomorrow, constants remain: aisle after aisle of empty shelves, all the nonperishables cleaned out of the store and stacked neatly in pantries and kitchen cabinets of suburban homes, cans of creamed corn and diced olives, loaves of whole wheat bread and gallon after gallon of drinking water, all gone. The voice on the TV tells us not to… Read more →