Chemosynthesis | new short fiction by Tara Anne Dalbow
"When we kissed, his mouth tasted medieval..."
Welcome to Khôra, a dynamic online arts space produced in collaboration with Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. Visit our Archive to read previous issues.
Got more in your inbox than you can read? Us too. In this Special Edition, we’re sending you 1-2 pieces a week. If you’d like your work to be considered for future publications, scroll down to learn more about Khôra’s 500 Words and Khôra’s Images.
Chemosynthesis by Tara Anne Dalbow | photograph by Sebastian J. Rodriguez
The man out there isn’t my husband, but my husband is out there.
Chemosynthesis occurs when there is no other option, which is to say when there is no light left.
He was straight off ten days on a troller when we met in a wet bar. When we kissed, his mouth tasted medieval and his sandpaper cheeks turned my face red for two weeks…
Read Chemosynthesis.
Tara Anne Dalbow is a writer, editor, and curator living in Los Angeles, CA. Sebastian J. Rodriguez is a photographer and designer living between New York and Los Angeles.
Artists and Writers
To enter Khôra’s collaborative waters:
Writers, read about Khôra’s 500 Words here.
Artists, send your artwork to Khôra's Images here.
Many thanks to all of you who have sent us work. Your words/images will always remain active in Khôra's ocean, and you won’t ever receive a notice of rejection from us. We know this process is not perfect; we wish to stay open to the possibility that at any point, your work will be a fit for a curated issue or team collaboration.
If you love what you’re seeing, please subscribe, share, tweet, retweet, and post, and Khôra will be back next week.
With galactic gratitude,
Leigh
Leigh Hopkins
and the Corporeal/Khôra squad