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Laura Blackwell's speculative fiction won a 2023 Shirley Jackson Award. In addition to being a writer, she's also a cohost of online reading series Story Hour and the copy editor for The Deadlands. Raised in the Upper Midwest by Southerners, she now lives in Northern California. ...more

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BSFA Longlist?! Plus, 2025 wrap-up and awards eligibility

In 2025, I spent a lot of time on client work and volunteering, not so much time writing or publishing. I had one lone story published, and in audio only! But maybe it takes only one, because…

Critters Poll and BSFA Longlist

In October, my story “Breathing Night” appeared at the Simultaneous Times podcast. Jean-Paul Garnier did a sensitive job editing and narrating this strange tale of anxiety,

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	She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula R. Stiles (Editor), Gemma Files (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardened Hearts by Eddie Generous (Editor), Gwendolyn Kiste (Goodreads Author), Tom Deady (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction by Jolie Toomajan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hailey Piper (Goodreads Author), Alex Laurel Lanz 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad 5 by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Seth Brown (Illustrator), Paul Michael Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from The Lake Vol. 5 by Kenneth W. Cain (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gemma Files (Goodreads Author), Lucy A. Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange California by Jaym Gates (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J. Daniel Batt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elise Tobler 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Puzzle Box by Paul Tuttle Starr (editor/contributor), Rawles Marie Lumumba (Goodreads Author) (contributor), E. Steen Comer (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horror USA: California by Gabriel Grobler (Editor), R.C. Bowman (Editor), Jean Anker (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Snoopy, the Story of My Life: The Myth, the Legend, the Beagle! (Peanuts)

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Laura’s Quotes

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“So many large words, as though syllables will hide the truth.”
― Sharon Mock, She Walks in Shadows

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“ABIGAIL GARDNER NÉE Cuzak was sitting on the bathroom floor, thinking about the relationship that mice in mazes have with death, when a many-splendored light shot down from the stars like a touch of divine Providence.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, She Walks in Shadows

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