Britny Cordera, a finalist in the 2020 Narrative 30 Below Contest, is a Black and Creole writer from Nebraska. She received a BFA in poetry and religious studies from the University Nebraska, Omaha, and is an MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

BY BRITNY CORDERABeside your distance, the sound of rainbow trout stilled in a river warmer than the bag & tent we are sleeping in, the current like birdsong we’ll never put a name to that might begin to ascribe a secret note for the end of this world & how it will happen: a continent on fire begets the floods begets the drought begets the tornadoes begets the locusts begets a branding iron burning our lungs, these titans. Want to say something:great horned owls duettingto each other from one st...