It’s like the face of her had changed—like she’s someone else, someone you used to know but can’t quite put your finger on. She greets you warmly, that same smile, her hair whitened by the years, makeup covering the lines that crisscross her skin. She’s visiting her...
Alexis is a native of Illinois but has spent their life in many homes, from New Orleans to South Korea. They received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina and are currently working as a freelance writer and editor in Richmond, VA. Their fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Blue Mesa Review, storySouth, and Duende, among other publications, and in 2012, they won the BLOOM Chapbook Contest for Fiction.