MFA Alum Aiden Baker Publishes Short Story in Witness

Congratulations to MFA alum Aiden Baker on publication of their short story—"Blue Faced Honeyeater"—in Witness.

From "Blue Faced Honeyeater":

Over the years, my wife developed peculiar habits. The strangest, my favorite, is the way she will, on occasion, scrunch up her face and give birth to fruit. The first time she did it we were at the zoo. We’d spent the day wandering along the gravel paths, pointing at elephants and tigers and spitting camels, sharing an ice cream cone. We were standing by the perching birds exhibit, peeking through the iron cage, when it happened. Abel began heavy breathing. I hardly noticed— she simply exhaled a small oh, reached into her pants, and pulled them from her: a handful of little red buds. They were coated in a thin layer of mucus and glinted, ravishingly, in the sun.

~ Aiden Baker, "Blue Faced Honeyeater," Witness

Check out Baker's story at Witness , follow them on Twitter at @wake_n_baker and check out some of their other work at LinkTree.

image credit: "Blue Faced Honeyeater" by sandid; released under license