Nathalie Guilbeault is a native Montrealer now living in North Hatley, Quebec. She is the author of the novels INHALED and WHEN I BECAME NEVER. Her next book, a collection of short stories, COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North, is set to come out January 2025. The story she is submitting here is taken from this collection. In 2022, she became the editor, French section, of the Nelligan Review, a bilingual literary and cultural journal. Her work has been published in various journals, anthologies, and magazines.