Ash Huang is the author of The Secret Lives of Immortals, forthcoming in 2027 from Orbit UK and Redhook. She has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat, Tin House Winter Workshop (MWC) and Reading Fellowship, and the Periplus Fellowship. She was a Brown Handler Resident with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. She is currently a Fiction Editor at Orion’s Belt and co-host of the podcast Thanks But Not For Me.

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The Origins of Lye

We live on a forgotten volcanic island in an Asiatic sea. It is a darkly soiled place made darker by our ancestors’ penchant for burning boats, back when ships landed almost once a week.

Little arrives permanently these days. Little departs for long. We are connected the same way everyone else is connected now, scrolling news on flickering glass screens…

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