E. Lee Vicar grew up in West Virginia and now lives in Western Massachusetts, where she works at a small publishing company. When she’s not working, painting, or watching birds, she’s hiding under the covers reading ghost stories.

Her first professional publication was Jay’s Place, read by Joe Scalora for Pseudopod episode 478 during the 2016 Artemis Rising event. When she was writing this story, she was thinking about the frustration and terror of being unable to understand something angry, and how we just want things to make sense, both around us and inside of us.