Teresa Milbrodt

Teresa Milbrodt is the author of two short story collections, Bearded Women: Stories (Chizine Publications) and Work Opportunities: Stories (Portage Press); a novel, The Patron Saint of Unattractive People (Boxfire Press); and a flash fiction collection, Larissa Takes Flight: Stories (Booth Books). Her stories, essays, and poems have been published widely in literary magazines (including Guernica). She is addicted to coffee, long walks with her MP3 player, frozen yogurt, and anything by George Saunders.

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Fiction Family & Relationships Technology & the Future

The Dreamlords

Fiction by Teresa Milbrodt August 27, 2018

Sometimes I was being chased by furies—monsters with the heads of women and bodies of huge black birds—and the castle was my refuge. Other times I wandered its halls looking for my husband, poking my head in each room and noting the tapestries and gold-framed oil paintings.

Fiction

In the Dim Below

By Teresa Milbrodt April 1, 2015

Our parents were too busy launching bombs over the river to notice missing fingers.

Fiction Family & Relationships

Berchta

By Teresa Milbrodt November 15, 2013

The little people eat on the couch while Berchta and I eat at the kitchen table, and she relaxes enough to grouse about how no one appreciates the old gods and goddesses anymore. I assume this is a typical complaint among mythical figures.

Fiction

Twelve Reflections on Brochures and Sword-Swallowing

By Teresa Milbrodt November 15, 2011

Cooking was my second love, though. Arthur was third. Sword-swallowing came first.