She awakes in a foreign land in a twin bed under its plaid gray duvet, surrounded by walls plastered with heavy metal posters. She’s far away from St. Louis. A ...
Nikki Bausch (she/her) is from St. Louis, Missouri. She's a DevOps Engineer, a former ESL and German teacher, a technical translator, a Fulbright and Rotary Alumna, and is pursuing a master's in Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna. She is also a visual artist, whose photos and digital art can be found on her Instagram account, @ArcanaArdatLili. Her written works have been published in Pank!, Perhappened, The Honest Ulsterman, Burnt Breakfast, Cauldron Anthologies, Neuro Logical, and elsewhere.