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Kathy Chao is a writer, data scientist, and New York transplant originally from Southern California. Her work, which incorporates elements of historical, speculative, and “literary” fiction, has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, the Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and the Georgia Review.


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19 Jan 2026

The moon was not her destination. It was a sentence.
the black fairy in the village sold her a dime for a nickel
After visits from the Whale, when the Lifemaker retreats to his chambers, Lúcio swims to the aquarium by the window, where he and Olga watch the fish fly by.
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