Gabrielle Griffis

Gabrielle Griffis is a mutlimedia artist, writer, and musician. She studied creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also worked for the Juniper Writing Institute. She has work published in, or forthcoming from, Cease, Cows, decomP, and Blue Lake Review. She works as a librarian on Cape Cod. Listen to her music here.

EVENTUALLY NOTHING’S COMING BACK by Gabrielle Griffis

April 18, 2020 · Fiction

First they converted five-thousand year-round homes into summer rentals. The number of Airbnbs and zoning regulations filled the ponds with nitrogen and cyanobacteria, stuff that evolved 2.7 billion years ago. You stare at a sign that says keep kids away from scum. You think, something is desperately wrong, but folks just shrug, elated that the remaining ponds are six degrees hotter. A woman in a bathing suit reads the same sign. “I’m glad I won’t be around to see what happens!” she says, snapping swimming goggles over hair the color of spider silk. She details her upcoming trip to a coral…

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