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Daryn Ray

Daryn Ray’s clients have included the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Poetry Foundation, among others.  

Illustrator

Fight Week

Summer 2022 | Fiction

On fight week, Kayla feels every muscle in her body harden. Electrical currents race around in her bloodstream; each movement is animated by a force that feels uncontrollable, uncontainable. Her coach keeps telling her to rest, to sleep, but how is she supposed to sleep?

Illustration by Daryn Ray

The Parable of the Goats

Summer 2022 | Fiction

He sat there in the pit, chanting and humming and carving sepulchers for an ancient warrior class of genocidal aliens, and did not even look up to acknowledge his captors.

Illustration by Daryn Ray

Knuckle Month

Summer 2022 | Fiction

He was an Italian whom she had met a few days earlier at a bar. Now she was on the back of his motorcycle as they rode down Sunset Boulevard. She wore a black dress, black heels, and a black motorcycle jacket with a wine-red-colored lining.