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Episode #4: Becca at the End of the World
Listen to our audio presentation of “Becca at the End of the World” by Shira Lipkin. Narrated by Lynne M. Thomas.
Shira Lipkin
June 6, 2020
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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
APEX MAGAZINE
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Shira Lipkin
Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Clockwork Phoenix 4, and other otherwise-sensible magazines and anthologies to publish their work; two of their stories have been recognized as Million Writers Award Notable Stories, and they have won the Rhysling Award for best short poem. Their nonfiction has appeared at Salon. They credit luck, glitter eyeliner, and tenacity. They co-edit Liminality, a magazine of speculative poetry, with Mat Joiner. They live in Boston and, in their spare time, fight crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Their cat is bigger than their dog.
Short Fiction
Never Chose This Way
Once upon a time, I thought I was a girl. Once upon a time, I lived in a castle. Well, it wasn’t really a castle. It was a fortress of sorts, though, and it had something like a moat and something like dragons, or that’s the story we told each other at night, whispered from room to room, down halls that stank of antiseptic and that stuff you sprinkle on carpets to soak up bodily fluids.
Shira Lipkin
July 7, 2015
Short Fiction
Becca at the End of the World
I nestle the video camera on its makeshift tripod, carefully centering my daughter’s image. She tucks her hair behind her ear and gives a strained smile. She is sixteen, and that hair is long and golden–kissed light brown and straight; she has the gangly grace only teenagers have, that sleek gazelle form. She is wearing khaki shorts and a striped tank top, and the bite mark on her arm is already putrefying.
Shira Lipkin
October 1, 2013
Poetry
The Busker, Broke and Busted
I am —
I am —
Oh, just ignore it, catches sometimes,
just a gear in my throat.
Shira Lipkin
May 7, 2013
Short Fiction
Splinter
When I was twenty years old, my best friends and I stepped off the edge of the world.
Shira Lipkin
November 6, 2012
Short Fiction
I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between
The notebook is on your nightstand, and it’s all that’s left of her in the thin morning light. It’s tattered—old blue cloth-covered thing, white cardboard showing through at the edges and corners. Looks like it’s ridden in her pocket for some time.
Shira Lipkin
October 4, 2011
Short Fiction
Valentines
The waiter’s name is Valentine. He has long, slim fingers, and he writes down my order instead of pretending to commit it to memory. I like that, his pen on the paper bringing forth one simple thing about me. My lunch. Just a tiny fragment of information.
Shira Lipkin
June 12, 2011
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