The Night Rift Manager

Gnal has a cushy job cleaning up other people’s messes. Anytime an eldritch summoning goes wrong, she’s called in to seal the resulting rift between dimensions. While the life of a night rift manager isn’t anything glamorous, it’s predictable—and comes with perks, like novelty pens! That is, until a goblin on Gnal’s cleaning crew smuggles home the most abominable creature imaginable: a human baby. For the first time in her life, Gnal scrambles to clean up a mess of her own making. 1st place in the June 2024 Community Magazine Contest