***Subodhana Wijeyeratne*** *is a historian and writer living in Tokyo, Japan. He's been writing fiction for nearly twenty years and has had nearly twenty short stories appear in print over the past two years, in venues including* Aphelion, Bewildering Stories, Expanded Horizons, Piker Press, *and* The Scarlet Leaf Review. *His short story 'They Meet in the Wall' was awarded a Mariner Prize in 2018. His first collection of short stories, Tales from the Stone Lotus, is currently available on Amazon - as is his debut novel, The Slixes. You can find him on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/iwamiyama/) and [his website](http://subowijeyeratne.com/).*