This story won first place at the MAYDAY 2024 Short Fiction Contest. I don’t know why I was chewing on my uncle’s arm, but I was. As a child I don’t know why I did a lot of things, so must find meaning from a memory handed down to my not-child-self: being small, and chewing […]
Aaron Barreras
AARON BARRERAS is an unlikely writer who started life as a small-town boy from New Mexico and somehow stumbled into an award winning career in film, animation and VFX. After making pixels all day, writing is a chance to escape the screen, which he stares at far too often, and to make words instead, which he doesn’t do often enough. He's no longer a boy, but still lives in a small town.

