She was careful, so for a while no one noticed. There was always someone sloppier, a bartender whose eyes went gluey mid-shift, a server with shrimp confit knot...
Jessika Bouvier is a queer Cajun writer. Her work appears (or soon will) in monkeybicycle, HAD, SUNHOUSE, Split Lip, Black Fox, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Recently, she was named a finalist in Washington Square Review’s New Voices Award and in fugue’s Prose Contest. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of So to Speak, an intersectional feminist journal.