To save face, run the razor along your hairline, oh so carefully, do not mar the skin. Put the face inside a velvet box with a small gold coin, a coin with its own saved face, embossed and soft and gold, only solid gold.
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Ash Huang has been published in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, Orion’s Belt, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat, Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Periplus Fellowship. She was a Reading Fellow for Tin House Workshop in 2024–2025. She is currently a Fiction Editor at Orion’s Belt, and a Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Resident with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.