Julia Rajagopalan

Julia Rajagopalan (she/her) is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction who lives just outside of Detroit, Michigan, with her husband and their very grumpy dog. She has stories in Uncharted Magazine, The Lorelei Signal, Flame Tree Press, and many anthologies, and she has a Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan. To read more of her work, check out her website: http://JuliaRajagopalan.com.

Julia believes that pizza should be square, soda is pop, and the length of the winter depends on the mood of the lakes, so never, ever, make them angry.

Read Rajagopalan’s short story “Industrial Accidents” in Horrific Scribes July 2026.

Description: A former factory is a weird place for a yoga class, but in the Rust Belt, everything was once something else. “Industrial Accidents” is a story about contradictions. Spoiled hipsters taking over industrial spaces. New hobbies that have ancient pedigrees. Working-class ghosts with old grudges. For people living among the ruins of industrialization, change can be hard, and toxic wounds run deep. Even worse are the metaphysical scars that capitalism has left behind.