Amber Velez

Short story published in Drunk Monkeys Magazine, Oct 2020. Wish I were there with you. Anyway I’m gone as much as you are. The words were scribbled on a receipt which faded on the dashboard, once-black ink steadily baking brown. Sunlight poured in, casting specks from dead bugs plastered to the windshield across the brown face…

Fantasy short story published in Theakers Quarterly Fiction, Issue 66, Apr 2020. Re-printed in Silver Blade Magazine, Sept 2020. The flecked reflections of the moon on the far waves looked like approaching ships. The moon was thin tonight, a silver sliver, so the fleet was smaller than usual, clustered together against the vast ocean. The waves…

   Short story published in Broken Pencil Magazine, Sept 2, 2020 You cock your head at me and ask,      “Are we too old for fairies?”      Both your hands clutch a paper coffee cup. Your sweater sleeves are pushed to your elbows, orange and pink stripes bunched up and overlapping.      “What kind of fairy?” I say.…