Coda Danu-Asmara

Coda Danu-Asmara is an emerging fiction author, currently working in Madrid in the humanitarian sector. Coda's previous work has been published in Thrice Magazine.

Another Orpheus

Because Orpheus knew his name,
he did not want to be born. He clutched his fingers to his toes and refused to move, even as his mother screamed and the doctor pleaded. So they had to cut him out with a long slice across his mother’s hips.