Bad Trip“…Olivia wants to be a fun girl. She wants to be chill about things. Not like last night, when she didn’t have the pills, and the drinks didn’t hit so nice, and she ended up yelling at a guy from the maintenance department…”
literary fiction
Emily Strempler
Emily Strempler (she/her) is a queer, German-Canadian, ex-fundamentalist writer of inconvenient fiction. She is an intersectional-feminist, anti-colonist, and abolitionist.
Banff, Canada
Selected work (12 publications)
A Likeable Girl“She slides the test into her binder and turns the phrase over in her mind. 'Boys don’t like girls who are too smart.' Adds it to a pile of similar statements. A list that grows and grows, until it seems to encompass every conceivable thing..."
Flash fiction
War Story“The President had announced the curfew at the beginning of the month, in a special 9am broadcast sent out to all of the country’s televisions and radios. There was a war on, he said, a war against ‘the criminal element’…”
Fiction
Apartment 1848"The bedroom wasn’t built for a couple. The walls were lined with cabinets, a narrow, anti-bac foam mattress wedged into a bunk under a small frosted window. Books, clothes, and keepsakes overflowed storage onto the floor..."
speculative
Fiction