Emily Gaines

Emily M. Gaines is a fiction writer from Northwest Indiana currently residing in Texas. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has previously appeared in Voyage by Uncharted. When she’s not reading or writing, Emily can be found knitting and watching Spiderman movies.

Content by Emily Gaines

Fiction,

Ya’arburnee

BY Emily Gaines

One MRI later and they were seated in front of another doctor with the most monotone voice Esme had ever heard, like he’d sanded away all the bumps and filled in all the divots until he had a nice flat surface on top of which he could slap the diagnosis of the day and send it down the patient’s throat as smoothly as possible.