My short story, “The Last Abduction” is currently up on Defenestrationism.net, the pre-eminent platform in “The Art of Throwing People Out Windows” (not to give too much away) as a finalist in their 2025 Short Story Contest. You can read my story, which has maybe a less straightforward take on the subject-matter here.
A couple of quick notes on the story, it was first published in the Fall 2023 Issue of the now-defunct NYU student-run magazine Caustic Frolic, and subsequently removed along with their entire database of issues 🙁 The story was inspired by a mix of personal experience, news stories and is something I initially imagined with a little alien illustration I created and who kept speaking to me.
Public voting for the contest begins September 1, 2025, so if you read the story and find yourself compelled, please vote!
