Faith Lynch

A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Ella finds a small zipper under her lover’s tongue as he lies sleeping. When she pulls it, her lover opens up “like an oyster,” revealing a second man. Ella soon realizes she has a zipper under her tongue as well, and the story ends with her fingering it uncertainly, trying “to imagine what she’d be like inside.”