“Jerry is curled around the steering wheel, his head pivoting back and forth as he contemplates passing. He edges closer and closer to the truck’s rear bumper, when an errant rock dislodges from behind its left mudflap. The rock hits their windshield like spit in the face. “Motherfucker,” Jerry mutters. To Miriam, it looks like practically nothing, just a faint indent in the glass, but she knows that by tomorrow it will have spread across the windshield. Somebody will have to repair it.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Border Crossings” by Brittany Micka-Foos from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Brittany Micka-Foos is the author of the chapbook a litany of words as fragile as window glass (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and the short story collection It’s No Fun Anymore (Apprentice House Press, 2025). Her work has been published in Ninth Letter, Witness, NonBinary Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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