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Kirstyn McDermott

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Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian author of two award-winning novels, Madigan Mine and Perfections, as well as a collection of short fiction, Caution: Contains Small Parts. Until recently, she produced and co-hosted a literary discussion podcast, The Writer and the Critic, and is currently undertaking a creative PhD at Federation University with a research focus on retold fairy tales.

Midnight Echo 20: “It Will Only Hurt If I want It To”

Cover of Midnight Echo 20, artwork created by David Schembri. The image depicts the head and shoulders of a young woman with her features slowly rotting, possibly in the throes of a hideous disease. She is staring up at the sky as though salvation may yet come.

In delightful news, I have a short story about to be published in Midnight Echo 20, the magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), edited by Marty Young.

“It Will Only Hurt If I want It To” is an odd and icky little body-horror (of a kind) that has been knocking around in my head for a handful of years. I didn’t have the full story worked out, merely an idea and a character

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Madigan Mine

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“Though I’ve heard it said that these lands where we make our home were prosperous before he took governance of them, that it has been his taxes and sporadic, unannounced levies that have brought poverty among its people and made them fear what each new season might bring”
Kirstyn McDermott, Triquetra

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