Clayton Bradshaw writes that which haunts us. He is a queer, formerly homeless veteran who holds an MFA from Texas State, was a finalist for the 2021 Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction at Pleiades Magazine, and will be a 2022 participant in the Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Barren Magazine; Collateral; r.kv.r.y journal; The Deadly Writers Patrol; and War, Literature, and the Arts. He is currently working on a collection of magical realism stories based in Texas and the South.