Brandon Taylor is the Assistant Editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and Tin House. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Amazon’s Day One, Necessary Fiction, Little Fiction, Gulf Coast, Catapult, Out Magazine online, and elsewhere. This fall, he will begin his MFA in fiction at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
After the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.