Ash Huang is a writer. Her fiction appears in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, Orion’s Belt and elsewhere. She won the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Workshop, the Tin House Winter Workshop and Reading Fellowship, and the Periplus Fellowship. She is currently a Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Resident with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
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Safe Face
To save face, run the razor along your hairline, oh so carefully, do not mar the skin. Put the face inside a velvet box with a small gold coin, a coin with its own saved face, embossed and soft and gold, only solid gold.
Read “Safe Face” in Nightmare Magazine✴︎