Ill-Fitting

Unmaking #4

by Morgan Bauman

Approximately 6000 words long.

The Nausea of Displacement: Once, long ago, they belonged. Now they sit, dusty and disbelieved, in the musty corner of old attics or grimy street corners. Unwanted and forgotten.

Mundane: Always, out of the corner of her eye, she spots them. They flicker out of sight before she can examine them: a magic she can never touch or reach.

Awakening: Julie has a talent for slipping unnoticed through a crowd, for fading out of sight while standing still and listening not ten feet from you. She hears a lot of secrets--she doesn't share them.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 25, 2013

About the author

Morgan Bauman's novels and short stories typically celebrate interpersonal relationships--family dynamics, friendships, and romance alike. This doesn't mean that every story has a relationship at its core, however. Some stories, like those found in Pendular Motion, have characters who find themselves isolated.

Bauman's work has been called introspective, innovative, and genre-defying. Although most of their stories include a fantastic bent, Bauman ventures to portray the unreal in a realistic manner.

In the interest of depicting stories that are true to their lived experiences, Bauman's works typically include characters of all sexual orientations and gender identities as well as characters with varied mental and physical disabilities. Furthermore, in keeping with their commitment to realistic diversity, Bauman includes characters of many races and ethnicities in their works and makes a sincere effort to include anti-racist themes.