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September 29, 2025

grief and bean burritos

two great tastes that taste great together

a couple years ago i wrote a story about taco bell and then i thought oh shit. no one but taco bell quarterly will publish this. so i sent it to them, but they didn’t publish it. oh well, i thought. it is unpublishable. spoiler: it was not.

i sent it out to a few other magazines anyway. truly just a few! lightspeed (who said no), if there’s anyone left, and heartlines. i got an acceptance from if there’s anyone left and withdrew from heartlines. this all happened within maybe a year and a quarter after i wrote it. (it usually takes…a lot longer and/or more tries to sell a story if you are not famous, and i assume some time even if you are.)

the beautiful print and ebook anthology came out in the spring, and now my story is available to read for free!

every taco bell in america

cw: grief, dead brother

i have about a million other things to tell you, so i will try to send another letter sooner this time.

xxoo,
annika

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