Rebecca Kuder’s short story, “Rabbit, Cat, Girl” was chosen for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3, forthcoming from Undertow Publications. It previously appeared in XIII: Stories of Transformation. Her essays and poems have been published in Mothering Magazine, The Knitter’s Gift, Midwifery Today, The Manifest Station, and Jaded Ibis Press. Rebecca has an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She teaches creative writing at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. All of Rebecca’s work (writing, teaching, living) is rooted in the centrality of storytelling to our collective humanity. She lives in Yellow Springs, with her husband, the writer Robert Freeman Wexler, and their daughter. Rebecca blogs at www.rebeccakuder.com.
I wake in the dark in bed and there’s a furnace, a turncoat thermostat inside my body; there is no limit, there is no overdoodling, no crescendo. No hot enough, only hotter.