Amanda Draznin

Amanda Draznin is a Creative Writing and Spanish major at Elon University. She plays saxophone, loves to read, and has previously been published in Youth Be Heard, Beyond Word Magazine, Neon Origami, and The Word’s Faire.

Published in Macabre Magazine

Forks and Knives

Amanda Draznin|April 2026|11 min read

TRIGGER WARNING: graphic depictions of violence, blood, gore. My craft is forks and knives. The art of the butcher: The blade is part of you now. Handle smoothed by years of heat and blood, the steel kissed dull and re-sharpened a thousand times. The same weight as your hands. You learn the body by breaking… Continue reading Forks and Knives