“For seventeen years they lie dormant in the undisturbed earth, sucking on root sap and doing nothing, nothing, nothing, until one day they crawl out of their shells and emerge in swarms so large that people write stories about them.”
— from “Brood X”, Little Patuxent Review, Winter, 2025
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Check out “Brood X,” my short story about cicadas and Morocco, in the Winter 2025 issue of The Little Patuxent Review.