Confluence is Pittsburgh’s longest-running literary conference with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror in literature, art and music. July 25-27, 2025.
Confluence is Pittsburgh’s longest-running literary conference with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror in literature, art and music. July 25-27, 2025.
(horror, short story) I glance in the glass wall’s reflection. It faces me twenty feet away as I walk up the stairs, marble slab steps showing grainy pink underneath my red sneakers. My fingers clutch the railing’s chrome. I’m feeling shaky, that internal quiver where your body announces that it may not be up to this. I focus on my image. Is my hair longer now? The eyes wider, bluer? The lips, are they swinging towards bee-stung or thinning?
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