But he didn’t account for the traffic radiating from the bridge collapse down the coast. He tried to call my mom several times from a pay phone, but she didn’t pick up.
The Sunshine Skyway
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Lauren C. Johnson
Lauren C. Johnson (she/her) attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state, to her interest in the ecological and surreal. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Orion Magazine online, Mason Jar Press, and others. She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she co-hosts Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series, and Club Chicxulub, a sci-fi and fantasy performance series. Her debut novel, The West Façade, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project (SFWP) in March 2026.