Sticky skin and equally tacky attitudes marked day five without power. After some convivial lubrication on the porch, they reconnected. They tumbled indoors and unwittingly created their first child.

The retelling of her origin story always irked her. She became a lighting designer who kept candles aflame in every room.

Karen Lozinski hails from NYC and lives in New Orleans. She’s a multidisciplinary artist who earned her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. At work on a novel and poetry collection, her writing appears in Talon Review, Scapegoat Review, Red Ogre Review, The Dead Mule, Chapter House Journal, ellipsis… literature and art, The Citron Review, 300 Days of Sun and is forthcoming in Mantis and Defunkt.