Toasted Cake 156! In which we fail to press the bell.
It's the kind of night that beckons you home.
This story first appeared in Syntax & Salt's April 2016 issue.
G. V. Anderson is a British writer whose first professional short story, "Das Steingeschöpf", was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2017. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in StarShipSofa, Strange Horizons, and F&SF. Find her at gvandersonblog.wordpress.com.