M.K. Foster's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Gulf Coast, The Adroit Journal, Sixth Finch, Rattle, B O D Y, Word Riot</i>, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland a
Late autumn, November-the-somethingth, how you’re supposed
to know what to do when someone says, play dead—but you don’t,
you asked for a story, but were given a body failing another