Samuel Jensen | The Sun Magazine

Samuel Jensen

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Samuel Jensen almost drowned in a swimming pool when he was five. His various water-based terrors have since been published in The Kenyon Review and Strange Horizons. He lives in Michigan, where he is working on a novel.

— From March 2024
Fiction

Longshanks

The elf hits me doing what feels like eighty, blowing through the light at the new intersection by the outlet mall. One of his headlights glances off mine, and he swerves on two wheels before slamming into a construction barricade with the sound of a typewriter dropped off a roof. No seat belt: he is thrown from the car and sails into the desert.

March 2024
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