I Read Stories: Heat by Kirsten Vail Aguilar

Heat by Kirsten Vail Aguilar in Jellyfish Review

Before the narrator’s mother died she had a strange dream of a woman in blue and an earthquake and a stranger whose hair was bright as a flame and gave off heat like the sun. You might be tempted to interpret the dream, and there are things there to interpret. But that is not where the story ends.

Read This: For a hypnotic story about loss and grief and the bizarre juxtaposition of life and death
Don’t Read This: If you want it to sum up neatly