Issue 6 | Refuge
Here, in 100 words or fewer, writers make quick work of compelling true stories, in the lead up to Multiplicity’s 2025 Spring/Summer issue, REFUGE.
Iridescence
by Kerri Call
Violence blew through my neighborhood like dust devils. Poverty scorched dreams. My mother concocted her own serum to blow a bubble big enough to hold me. I floated above the prickly Arizona desert, my bubble obscuring and shielding me from its harsh and unforgiving landscape.
On a breeze, I drifted off to college in Hawaii where I overheard fellow students call bubble-dwellers naive and overprotected. My own bubble now punctured, I found myself—finally—grounded. I marveled at it all, this tropical island paradise, this life of beauty and ease. A new iridescence.
About the Writers
Kerri Call, a Bay Path MFA candidate, wrote this piece in the Multiplicity Studio class during the 2025 spring semester.