Mavrik McMeekan

Mavrik McMeekan is a writer from Northern Illinois, currently residing near Portland, Oregon. He has previously been selected as a winner of the PlayOn Playwriting Competition, and his fiction has appeared in Dug Up Magazine, The Salmon Creek Journal, and the Sauk Valley Works. His novelette Four Nights on a Riverbank is forthcoming from Graveside Press. When not writing, he enjoys studying Japanese, training in martial arts, and getting lost in the woods.

He can be found on Bluesky: @mavrikm.bsky.social

Read McMeekan’s short story “This Sickness Will Not End in Death” in Horrific Scribes.

Description: In the closing days of the civil war, Miriam receives word that her older brother has died on the battlefield. When the Army brings his body home, everything she knows is challenged.