Anya Leigh Josephs (they/she) is a New York City-based writer, theatre director, and psychotherapist. Anya received their first-ever rejection letter as a professional writer from F&SF nearly a decade ago (it was very encouraging!). Since then, Anya’s work has appeared in The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine, among others, and is now appearing in F&SF for the first time. “flesh of my—” is a story about intergenerational cycles of suffering, maternal love, and cannibalism. By night my mother eats me. She thinks I don’t know but I do. She always remembers to spell me so it doesn’t hurt a bit, so