“What happened to the bottle opener?” I ask.
“What happened to the murder hornets?” he counters. My partner has a theory that 2020 is proof that time travel...
Aiden Grace Smith (they/them)'s first novel, Palais Royale, is now available from Engine Books. Their collection of stories, Adulterous Generation, was published by Queen's Ferry Press, and their collection, Wanting, was published by Rose Metal Press as part of the book A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness. Aiden's other work was recently anthologized in the Norton Anthology New Micro, and has also appeared in Litro, The Baltimore Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Queerlings, (mac)ro(mic), Juked, Fifth Wednesday, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Best of the Web and Best of the Net among other journals and anthologies. Aiden is trans and queer, and also publishes under the name Amy L Clark. They teach creative writing and literature at Emerson College.