Rachel L.E. Klammer

Rachel L.E. Klammer is a PhD candidate in fiction with a secondary in film at Oklahoma State University. She is a queer writer interested in the intersections between queer identity, media, and nature. In the summers, she spends her time traveling to whatever national parks she can. Her previous work has appeared in Natural Bridge.

THROUGH THE LAUNDROMAT WINDOW by Rachel L.E. Klammer

Jane watches the world from across the laundromat. Her apartment window affords a view of the parking lot and inside the laundromat. Jane watches a plump and elderly man wash horse blankets for the third time that month. A sign near his machine says ‘please do not wash horse blankets.’ Jane has been watching the laundromat for three months, ever since she first moved to town during the ever-clinging winter. It is April now, and still snow and melting icicles crawl over building roofs. There will be snow lumped in the edges of some valleys and higher altitudes of the…

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