Jordan Nishkian
Bio
Jordan Nishkian is an Armenian-Portuguese writer based in California. Her stories and poetry have been published in a number of literary journals. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Mythos and has recently published her first novella, Kindred.
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Wild Daughter
In grief, we keep. By the time Grandma died, her house had become a museum. This morning, when we pulled into the oil-stained carport, Mom hesitated before turning off the ignition. During the four-hour drive it took to get us into the valley, she and I had mostly ridden in comfortable silence, and now I saw her want for words. The corners of her lips were pensive, tinted with a practical berry lip balm. The new matriarch.
By Jordan Nishkian4 years ago in Fiction
In the Void
Despite echoing splashes and the dive team’s buzzing chatter, the quiet of the cenote was almost impenetrable. For the past hour, the six had been able to keep their heads above the surface and reserve their air supply, but the deeper they traveled into the underwater cave, the lower the cavern ceiling had become. Now, there was only a foot of space between the clear, abyssal water and crumbling limestone.
By Jordan Nishkian4 years ago in Fiction
