The First Migration

Soooo…I was digging through the blog posts and realized that this was stuck in the Drafts for way longer than it should’ve been. This was my first story and publication of 2025, and is actually the first story in an unpublished series that I will eventually find a home for. So many firsts for such a little piece.

Read: “The First Migration” now up at Emerge Literary Journal’s extra large double Issue 34 & 35.

Over the years, she salvaged sounds and scraps of phrases, creating a string of words which passed between her lips over and over…

“The First Migration” in Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 34 &35