Zee Carlstrom

Zee Carlstrom (they/them) is a queer writer and creative director from Chicago. Their stories have been featured or are forthcoming in Hobart PulpThe NoSleep Podcast, and elsewhere. Zee occasionally tweets: @ZeeCarlstrom

GREAT BLOOD by Zee Carlstrom

Every day, during his half-hour lunch break, Horace Median Dahl strolls along the ornamental concrete pathway that cuts through the center of Grace Hill Cemetery. During this restive walk, he eats his usual brown-bag lunch: a snack-sized sack of Doritos and a chicken and cheddar sandwich with BBQ sauce, the way his mama always makes it.  Today, however, Horace strays from the ornamental concrete path and tosses his mama’s lunch into the garbage. Unencumbered by tradition, he strides down a weedy gravel walkway that takes him into a dark corner of the cemetery, devouring a tilapia salad sandwich and a…

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