Maggie Su explains the whys and hows of fighting for the lines you love, the importance of believing in your own intention, and what radical self-love can look like. "Egg Alien" was originally published in Smokelong Quarterly. Read it here: http://www.smokelong.com/egg-alien/

Maggie Su is a recent Indiana University MFA graduate whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, The Offing, The Journal, Green Mountains Review, New Flash Fiction Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She serves as fiction editor for Indiana Review and staff reader for Ploughshares. You can follow her @litmagreject.