Aurora Mattia

Aurora Mattia is from Texas. Nightboat has published two of her books: a novel called The Fifth Wound and a story collection called Unsex Me Here. Her third book, another novel called Seven Come Eleven, is coming out from Nightboat early 2028.

a black and white photograph of a young child standing in a yard before a fence and a sidewalk, with a hill in the back. She wears bangs, a bonnet, and a skirt, holding a swaddled doll.

John Rechy

The Prime of Miss Destiny

I. Who was Miss Destiny when no one was looking? Who was Miss Destiny in the off hours? Without her name, who was she? I don’t know and a long time has passed since she was living in the vicinity of Pershing Square, a long time has passed since