“In the wake of Japan’s apocalypse, tens of millions of incombustible, life-sized dolls were expelled from the ashes. They coughed up charcoal clouds that dispersed into sunlit particles, then balled their fists and brushed the cinders from their eyes.”
My story, “Country of Dolls,” is featured as ‘story of the month’ on Consequence Magazine’s website. Read it for free here.