Calli DeSerio

Calli DeSerio (sometimes also Lambard) is a short story writer from the Philly suburbs. She likes writing about the peculiar ways we interact with each other. Oh, also cryptids. A lot of cryptids.

PA, United States

Selected work (4 publications)

RiverCraft Magazine, 2022

Like Pulling TeethIt happens while I’m using the scaler and the mirror, chunks of food coming out from behind this kid’s braces. I’ll probably cut open his gums if I keep this up, so I pull my hands out of his mouth and tell him I have to go to the bathroom.

Flagship Magazine, 2023

CliffsideWhen we arrived at the Cliffs of Moher, we were faced with a white wall. Not a literal wall, but a wall of fog so pure white that you couldn’t see past it. I’d seen pictures of the cliffs before—they were what drew me to Ireland—but I couldn’t imagin

creative nonfiction

The Ginkgo, 2023

College Students Need to See Sustainability in Small StepsThink back to when you first began college. The moment you set foot on campus, everything in your life changes at once. Among all of these things, how can a college student not be self-absorbed?

environmentalism

We Can't Shop Our Way to a More Sustainable WorldSomehow the idea prevails that, even in sustainability, more is better. I saw firsthand what having more does. Really, it just feeds into the narrative of consumerism that’s putting us in this mess in the first place.

environmentalism

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