wormhole: magic that swallows and spits
By jj peña
“maybe / the gnawing & / chomping / we will go through / will be our loved ones / greeting us / on the other side”
jj peña
jj peña (pronouns he/they) is a queer, burrito-blooded writer. JJ is the winner of blue earth review’s 2019 flash non-fiction contest, cutbank’s 2019 big sky, small prose contest, mythic picnic’s 2020 postcard prize, & Santa Clara Review’s 2021 Flash Non-fiction contest. JJ’s work is included in the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology & Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions (2020). JJ is a 2021 Periplus fellow, holds a BA in both English and Anthropology, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. JJ’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, & elsewhere. JJ serves as a flash fiction reader for Split Lip magazine.