In the second story of writer Mimi Mondal’s (miminality) fictional “Blood Ties” short story series, created for our Interdependence issue of #SpiralMagazine, you meet Andy. In Briarwood, Andy overhears his American colleagues at lunchtime discussing some vampire outbreak. His friends don’t care much for vampires. They don’t care for America either, less so the surroundings of their engineering campus—miles and miles of vast, lonely landscape that reflects back their indifference. Back in Taipei, Andy was a horror-movie-loving goofball, but here, he’s an interchangeable worker drone. But when he goes to his favorite diner after work, a place he usually feels invisible, a stranger’s offhand comment makes him realize how identity, belonging, and survival are all tangled up, not just in the stories we tell—but also who’s willing to listen. What led him to this conclusion? 👀 Find out in “Andy”, only in #Spiral, our multimedia publication which you can find on our website or at the 🔗 ...