Sarah Kumari (she/her) is a former research scientist who now supports learning and development of researchers in Surrey England. She’s currently revising her full length manuscript, a time-travel YA story which may well require a time machine to get finished. She’s appearing for the first time in F&SF but has a story in Escape Pod which you should check out if you like stories about resistance, revolution and working with a giant flower to subvert, drug-fuelled corporate pollination rituals. Content warning! References to infanticide Mama is wailing again, and the bread is getting soft. Her shrieks swoop over the woods