Matthew Goldberg

Matt Goldberg is a writer, teacher, and content designer whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Normal School, Fictive Dream, Coolest American Stories, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. His work has also won first place for the 2021 Uncharted Magazine Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Story Award. He earned his MFA from Temple University and lives with his partner in Philadelphia, PA.

Content by Matthew Goldberg

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Fiction,

Calf

BY Matthew Goldberg

We’d decided to try out Calf, the restaurant where the only thing on the menu was calf. Each set of diners was assigned their own room, called a “pen.” When we got there, the host walked us to our pen and latched the door.