J.L. Akagi
J.L. Akagi is a queer Japanese American who writes about what scares her. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons and is forthcoming in The Dread Machine.
I grew up in Colorado. When I was young, the death of Matthew Shepard dominated local news coverage. I realized I was queer concurrently with the aftermath. Details of his murder still bother me, even so many years later. I wrote this story as a way of reconciling that kind of cruelty for myself. I've always envisioned death as peaceful, and it soothes me to imagine a special locus of peace for those impacted by violent hate crimes.
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