My name is Noucha, I'm eleven years old and my favorite superhero is me!Everything in my life is magical, epic and fantastic. I live in the most beautiful house in my neighborhood even though the ... [+]
Sydney Sackett is a speculative fiction author and poet pursuing her English major in FSU, Maryland. Some of her work appears in Menacing Hedge, Blue Marble Review, MONO., and Not One of Us. Find her at https://sydneybsackett.wixsite.com/website. "There Was An Old Lady" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Binaural classics on repeat while she sleeps and writes and eats, and D, vitamin variety, for sun loss come winter, an anemic's pick—quick fix-it before British oat milk ordered overseas which drains her calcium, causing supplements, bulk silicon packs in boxes back to back, add powdered protein to grow on, then wash down with yoga night and morning, Yoplait breakfast hold the rest for after tea; a toast to nourish organicity in search of glorious longevity