a special guest story by Kari Maaren about a strange wanderer with a mighty hunger for bagels

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Bagels

a special guest story by Kari Maaren about a strange wanderer with a mighty hunger for bagels



She walked into town with the storm at her back and trouble following at her heels.

We gave her a cup of coffee and a toasted poppy-seed bagel.

She smiled, thanked us, and headed off down the road.

We’re trying to ignore the sounds emerging from the next town over.

I guess they were out of bagels.


Kari Maaren is a writer, cartoonist, musician, and academic whose first novel, Weave a Circle Round, was published by Tor Books in 2017. She has a completed webcomic, West of Bathurst, and an active one, It Never Rains. She is fond of time travel.

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Short story written by Kari Maaren

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Story prompt taken from a photo by Morgan Sessions

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