Nina Semczuk is a Ukrainian American writer originally from upstate New York. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Sinking City Review, Coal Hill Review, The Line Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her comics have appeared in The Weekly Humorist, The Belladonna, and Little Old Lady Comedy. Before moving to Brooklyn and then north to Peekskill, she served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. Nina is a fiction reader for The Rumpus and a book reviewer for Shelf Awareness.

WIT TEA

I Am That Goddamn Metal Water Bottle that Shatters Any Sense of Peace in Yoga

By NINA SEMCZUK

NOT SO FAST — I see you inching away