Kayla Jean Murphy

Biography

Kayla Jean Murphy is from Pennsylvania. She received her MFA from Virginia Tech. Her debut novel, More Abundantly, is forthcoming (West Virginia UP, 2027). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Soft Union, Blue Arrangements, and elsewhere. 

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FICTION

Buck Scrape

By Kayla Jean Murphy ,  Illustrations by

They took their honeymoon a month before the shotgun wedding. A long weekend in the Poconos. His coworkers winked and goose-laughed and wished him luck when he told them he wouldn’t be there that Friday. 

Woman standing among display animals in a department store.