Kathryn McMahon is a queer cross-genre writer who divides her time between the Puget Sound and southwest England. Her flash fiction has won or received nominations for various literary awards and her speculative fiction has appeared here in PodCastle as well as in places such as Luna Station Quarterly, Syntax and Salt, The /tƐmz/ Review, and the food and horror anthology Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good (Upper Rubber Boot, 2019). If she’s not writing, she’s probably in the woods with her wife and dog. Follow her on Twitter @katoscope and find more of her work at www.darkandsparklystories.com.