Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

What she doesn’t like is that she can’t find any toilet paper at the end of the world. Apparently, people do strange things when they’re scared of dying, and one of them is hoarding toilet paper.

A tiny brown spider makes its way across the pew in front of Cora. She watches it tickle its way across the wood,

The silhouette shivers along with the flickering candles, swaying back and forth.

Cora kneels in a small dark box and whispers her sins through the lattice of stars.