Lynne M. MacLean is a writer and health research consultant from Ottawa, Canada. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Stupefying Stories, On Spec Magazine, Tesseracts Fifteen, and Horrific History, among others. Previously, she also lived and worked as a mental health practitioner in Canada’s prairies and Northwest Territories, where much of her fiction is set. This one, however, takes place somewhere suspiciously similar to, but considerably less weedy than, her own Ottawa backyard.