REVIEW: “You Have Been Murdered” by Andrew Kozma

Review of Andrew Kozma, “You Have Been Murdered,” Flash Fiction Online 139 (April 2025): 29-31 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

Content note: Murder (obvs), violence/blood.

I’m not normally a fan of 2nd-person stories, but this one really drew me in — not because it’s a story of how I was murdered, but because it’s a story about masking, about all the things people — whether murdered or maybe just merely neurodivergent — do to mask, to fit in (“you have been covering wonderfully”!). There was something about this story that felt like it was speaking directly to me; maybe that’s why, for once, the 2nd-person voice felt right. What a powerful story, one I’m unlikely to forget for a long time.

(First published in DIAGRAM Fall 2010.)