Emma Sloley

Emma Sloley’s fiction and creative nonfiction appears in Literary Hub, Joyland, The Common, CRAFT, and The Masters Review Volume VII anthology, among many others. Her second novel, The Island of Last Things, will be published by Flatiron Books on August 12, 2025. Born in Australia, Emma now divides her time between California and the city of Mérida, Mexico.

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Emma Sloley  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

When they heard her idea, the others had all lobbied to go to a casino instead, to Vegas or maybe Reno, but Glory reminded them she needed to stay within a forty-minute drive of the hospital, so they grudgingly gave in to her choice.