Lady of the Tunnels
“911, what is your emergency?”
“I think my sister’s gone missing.”
“What’s your sister’s name?”
“Peri. Peri Willoughby. I’m her brother, Leo.”
“And what makes you think your sister’s missing, Mr. Willoughby?”
“I haven’t heard from her in weeks. I’m in her apartment now and it doesn’t look like she’s been here in a while. I think… I think she went into the subway tunnels.”
“Did she leave an offering?”
“What?”
“Did your sister leave an offering when she went into the subway tunnels?”
“I… I don’t know. Look, why does that matter? She’s missing and I think she’s—”
“There’s nothing I can do for you, Mr. Willoughby.”
“What?”
Click.
Erica Leslie Weidner is based in New York City. She is the most avid defender of the G train, the city's most maligned subway line. Her work has appeared in Decoded Pride Anthology and Delicate Friend and is forthcoming in Divinations Magazine and Scrawl Place. She is currently in school to become a librarian, and she just started her first lit mag, underscore_magazine. Erica recommends the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
