A 5000 word story just got published in Encounters Magazine. I’m in Issue #7 with ‘An Architectural East Egg.’ Here’s the opening graph:

Olya had fallen asleep when Ukraine was over Japan and woke up orbiting above the gash where her motherland had once resided. Her alarm had again failed to wake her on time. She unzipped her sleep sack, raced through her morning ritual–finger-brush teeth, pull hair into ponytail, grab an apple from her stash, shove her sleep sack into its hiding place–and ran down the mountain. If she garnered another citation, Serhiovich, the president of the Ukraine Corporation, would make good on his promise and jettison her into space. What did he care about one builder? Ukraine had hundreds of thousands, and ever since the UN had detached Ukraine from the earth and terraformed it into a satellite, Serhiovich did with them as he pleased.

If you decide to purchase the issue ($0.99), I hope you enjoy my story!