Fort Starlight — Claudia Zuluaga

Broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a swamp, Ida Overdorff discovers the strange community around her -- a millionaire living in a tree house, two feral child thieves. Ida clings to her dream of returning to New York while weathering storms both meteorological and emotional, and comes to understand that nobody's luck -- even hers -- is all bad.

Claudia Zuluaga's fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Lost Magazine, JMWW, Linnaean Street, and the Best of the Web series. Zuluaga is a lecturer in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City.