The plastic bed is cold against Tamiko’s calves, her butt, her shoulder blades. The monstrous contraption hums, as if hungry for her. She’s heard stories of people who freak out in these things; she holds in her hand, in fact, a panic button. The earnest young technician who handed it to her wears scrubs and […]
Alison Sanders
ALISON SANDERS is a mother and an attorney living in Santa Cruz, California. Her writing has appeared in Stanford Magazine, Cleaver, Seaside Gothic, Bluebird Word, Flash Fiction Magazine, and the 2023 Swan Song anthology. She was a finalist in Bellingham Review's 2021 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the WOW! Women on Writing Winter 2023 Flash Fiction Contest, and her work was shortlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and the Retreat West Short Story Contest. She is working on her first novel.
