It’s shoot day for episode “Newlyweds Headed for Divorce!” and you’re doing one last check-in with your guests. Young stud husband is doing tequila shots in his dressing room. When you poke your head in, he hollers,...
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler
Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American writer from Hawaii who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Smokelong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 long list. Her stories appear in Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Fractured Lit, Moon City Review, The Forge, and more. Find her online at dawntasakasteffler.com and on X, BlueSky and Instagram @dawnsteffler
Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog
But I didn't ask for a dog. I asked for Grand Theft Auto. Mom says, “There are things in that game that are not age-appropriate,” and I say, “Like killing hookers after you pay them so you can get your money back?” She...