MFA alum Aiden Baker Reading for Witness Literary Magazine
On Saturday March 5, MFA Alum Aiden Baker read an excerpt from their short story, "Blue Faced Honeyeater," as part of Witness Magazine's Witness Weekends reading series.
Baker's short story appears in Witness Magazine's Winter 2021 Issue.
From "Blue Faced Honeyeater":
Over the years, my wife developed peculiar habits. The strangest, my favorite, is the way she will, on occasion, scrunch up her face and give birth to fruit. The first time she did it we were at the zoo. We’d spent the day wandering along the gravel paths, pointing at elephants and tigers and spitting camels, sharing an ice cream cone. We were standing by the perching birds exhibit, peeking through the iron cage, when it happened. Abel began heavy breathing. I hardly noticed— she simply exhaled a small oh, reached into her pants, and pulled them from her: a handful of little red buds. They were coated in a thin layer of mucus and glinted, ravishingly, in the sun.
Check out Baker's reading on Witness Mag's YouTube Channel, read "Blue Faced Honeyeater" at Witness, follow Baker on Twitter at @wake_n_baker, and check out some of their other work at LinkTree.
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image still/screen capture from "WITNESS Reading by Aiden Baker" via Witness Magazine YouTube Channel