Litsa Dremousis
Nice Job, Poetry
Like Cher,
I, too, wish I could
turn back time.
I’d jump back
to the radiology lab
and knock the radioactive iodine
from my hand.
It somehow left a wad of cancer intact
but permanently destroyed my salivary glands.
Bio: Litsa Dremousis (she/her) is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". The Believer, Bright Flash Fiction Review, Esquire, Filter, Flare Lit Mag, Flash Fiction Magazine, McSweeney's, Monkeybicycle, MSN, NPR, NYMag, NYT, Paper, Paste, PEN Center USA, Pictura Journal, P&W, PW, The Rumpus, Salon, Shine Poetry Quarterly, Short Beasts, Slate, WaPo, et al. Her story "Slipping Through the Membrane" was just nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026. litsadremousis.com, @litsadremousis.bsky.social