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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

“A Wise and Patient Mother.” Dark fantasy story in Weirdbook #45, edited by Douglas Draa (Wildside Press, July 2022). Possibly the only cli-fi story from the POV of Grendel’s grandma. amazon.com/dp/1479472905/ and available for free to all newsletter subscribers (free at my site) -fi amazon.com/dp/1479472905/ pronouncedlahra.com/

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

“What the Dead Birds Taught Me.” Horror story in Nightmare #118, edited by Wendy N. Wagner (Adamant Press, July 2022). Grieving her parents, art major and secret necromancer Mary accepts help from the wrong man. An angry modern retelling of “Bluebeard.” nightmare-magazine.com/fiction

Nightmare MagazineWhat the Dead Birds Taught Me - Nightmare MagazineThe first time I saw him, I was crouched in a ditch by the highway, lancet poised, holding a crumbly-paged book open to the words to reanimate a dead owl. Anne leaned against our dad’s old car on the shoulder, just a few feet past the impromptu memorial some of Mom and Dad’s students had put up. The flowers were wilting and the photos were fading, just like our parents’ ghosts in the ditch where they’d died. I walked all up and down it, grasses itching at my legs despite my jeans.
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

“What Is Lost in the Smoke.” Weird horror story in Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards, September 2022). The smoke-eaters reside in the sky, their existence sustained by what is burned. Welcome to fire season. blog.nettirw.com/2022/09/27/ch

WRITTEN BACKWARDSCHIRAL MAD 5 – NOW AVAILABLE!By Written Backwards
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

“Your Lives of Uncertain Number.” Fantasy story in CatsCast, edited by Laura Pearlman (Escape Artists, October 2022). Cats may get nine lives, but nobody ever said what forms they take in reincarnation. One of my sweeter stories. escapeartists.net/2022/10/03/c

Escape ArtistsCatsCast 7: Four Stories About ... Cats? | Escape ArtistsFour short stories, each one stranger than the last. “Lilly”, by Melissa Mead. Originally published in “A Quiet Shelter There”. “What Color Is a Cat by Moonlight?” by Bo Balder. A CatsCast original. “Your Lives of Uncertain Number” by Laura Blackwell. A CatsCast original. “Ruby Could Be a Cat” by Alexandra Grunberg. A CatsCast original. […]
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

Story Hour, online reading series co-hosted with Daniel Marcus. Every Wednesday, Daniel and I have two speculative fiction writers read their own fiction—at least one complete story each—on Zoom and Facebook. storyhour2020.com/

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