Kirstin Scott lives in Salt Lake City, where she works as a medical writer at a healthcare analytics company. She is the author of Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel, was a Publisher’s Weekly Pick of the Week, and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her short stories have appeared in New Letters, The Cimarron Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, PANK, Sonora Review and elsewhere.
Work
From Ajax at the End of Time
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In France they had a whole town just waiting for it: December 21, 2012, the end of time. In Salt Lake City, we thought it would be funny if on that night we went to eat at The Mayan restaurant—this was the place with the cliff divers and tiki torches, the mechanical toucans in the fiberglass trees—but it went out of business before then.
Those French were planning to survive the apocalypse. Their local mountain housed some alien spaceships, evidently, that were set to evacuate believers. But we here in Utah didn’t expect to go anywhere. If time ended we’d keep running, slow to realize that we’d gone right off the edge, legs churning in space, gravity set to reassert itself upon the action like a vulture or a narrator or a conflicted, noncustodial parent.
It was the last summer of the world. In the stupid pace of usual life, things were coming to a close for all of us.
Bibliography
Motherlunge, New Issues, 2013
