*Note from the Editor: CW—This story contains allusions to terrorism, institutional violence and cultural references that may be controversial. This story is about love, not
Read MoreAuthor: Jay Parr
Jay Parr lives with his partner and child in Greensboro, NC, where he's a lecturer in the nontraditional Humanities program at UNCG. He owes thanks to Diya Abdo, Rana Israili, and other readers for helping him check his white-male privilege, to Kaya for inspiring this character, to Greg Minnig for letting a stranger crash too long at his tiny Houston Street apartment, and to Gabriella McField for her brilliant line edits. Parr's work has most recently been published by Dead Skunk Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Streetcake Magazine, and Variant Literature Journal.