Christina D’Antoni is a writer born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her MFA in fiction from Arizona State University and is an alumna of the American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, and Lighthouse summer workshops. Her work appears in Washington Square Review, X-R-A-Y, and Heavy Feather Review. She reads flash fiction for Split Lip Magazine.
I ran over a nightjar with my car. It wasn’t my fault—it sat there roosting in the right lane of the road. I was on the phone with my brother when it happened; he’s apprenticing in ear-nose-throat. He’d changed...