Embers

Genre cover by Lauren Suchenski

Why is this piece your Trace Fossil?

“This piece is an echo of time and space, it is a trace fossil of ages long past, and the life that still pulses in this space. It is a fragment and a fullness at the same time; a reflection of what is left behind and what still glows in the present moment.”

Lauren Suchenski has a difficult relationship with punctuation. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and four times for The Best of the Net. Her full-length collection All You Can Measure (2022) as well as a chapbook Full of Ears and Eyes Am I (2017) is available from Finishing Line Press. She is a full-time photographer and her artwork has been published in various magazines, including most recently in Camas Magazine, Tealight Press, Feral, Honey & Lime, and Peculiars Magazine.