Mason Koa has fiction published or forthcoming in Vestal Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, UCLA’s Westwind, XRAY, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best Microfiction 2024. He is a graduate of the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Creative Writing Program. He is Filipino- and Chinese-American and writes from the Bay Area, CA. He is fifteen years old.
Almost breathlessly, he raved to me that he had done it: He had separated himself from nature once and for all. I pointed out that we ate from nature before a light flickered in his eyes and I cupped my hand over my mouth.