The Librarian (Air & Nothingness Press, November 2022), pp. 18-31
Ed. Todd Sanders
Gizzard’s Gap, a desolate impasse at the heart of an endless war. Cleo guards her side of the canyon, lost in her sense of duty, doing her best to raise a young daughter. When her old childhood librarian shows up, Cleo borrows military texts and manuals but also picture books she loved as a girl. As memories flood back, she must choose whether to be a soldier first or a mother.
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