The Martyrs"My mother feared the plague, feared long tails and large testicles."
Essay
creative nonfiction
Hayli May Cox
Hayli May Cox (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Missouri, though she's really a Michigander. Find her fiction and nonfiction in various journals and her physical body in the woods with a backpack full of field guides.
Columbia, MO, United States
Selected work (5 publications)
The Evelyns"“Done,” she says, removing the speculum. She throws away the device and peels off her gloves. There are benefits to having a mother who is a gynecologist. This is not one of them."
Short Story
Fiction
Self-Portrait"Sculpt the peaks and valleys of the flames as they caress her cheeks, her arms, her everything, and paint the man who went back for her and never returned."
creative nonfiction
flash essay
Menarche"She imagined a pumpkinseed baby with a pumpkinseed heart, swaddled and pressed into a miniature plastic cradle."
speculative
Short Story
Fiction