Our Exoskeleton
Brianna Simmons
We drive towards the full moon in a car of rusted metal and driftwood sides. Other vehicles flash by, pearly headlights. Ours have darkened to tainted orange. They are all headed West, we go East. We are Eastbound and the full moon draws us in. The car rattles, wind scratching at the rust, like fingernails on a scab. We will get there, this car has not failed us in all the years we have been driving. It did not fail us during the Blizzard, or the Bywind, not ever. We have the moon and we have the car and we are driving. And we are Eastbound.
Brianna Simmons roams museum exhibits like an anthropological cryptid and will laugh and never give a straight answer when asked where she is from. Looking for inspiration in every corner, cranny, and cranium, she writes to capture the nuances of human imagination.
Issue 14
2020