Alyza Taguilaso

Alyza Taguilaso is a resident doctor training in General Surgery. Her work has been nominated for a Rhysling Award. Her poems have also been shortlisted for contests like the Manchester Poetry Prize and Bridport Poetry Prize, and have been published in several publications, including Electric Literature, Crazy Horse, The Deadlands, Canthius, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Orbis Journal, Voice and Verse, and Luna Journal PH, among others. You may find her online via wordpress (@alyzataguilastorm), instagram (@ventral), and twitter (@lalalalalalyza).

  • Evidence

    I refuse to find proof of innocence. The halls of court are narrow and dim, the air reeks of age and names forgotten. They shot him in plain sight: seventeen witnesses to the cry for help, begging for another twenty-four hours to breathe. He was given thirty bullets to the chest, said the coroner. Points…