Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Jordan Zachary

Jordan is a lifelong native of North Carolina and has earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Queens University, in Charlotte. She says she’s “fond of the weird, wild and even slightly odd.

“Memory’s End” is a story that is neither weird nor wild nor odd. Coming as it does after a pandemic that has claimed millions of lives, it’s sadly realistic. A family’s last surviving member is dying of the plague that killed all the others. The story has a second-person protagonist, “you,” which could be anybody but is male for the sake of family and the necessity of choice.

Bewildering Stories accepted ºMemory’s End” because editors felt it was not a “suicide story” so much as a depiction of grief at loss and the victim’s resignation in the face of an inexorable fate that is putting an eternal end to a life of happiness.

Jordan Zachary’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Jordan. We’re glad to have you with us!