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L.B. Shimaira

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L.B. Shimaira is from the Netherlands, born in 1989, married and a mother. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree and currently works as a research technician, where she helps develop vaccines.
She considers herself a horror addict, having been into the genre since she was a little kid. As she often finds horror too predictable, she enjoys trying to make her works full of surprises.
The majority of her works are inspired by her own dreams and nightmares, giving them a vivid sense of realism. She's autistic, struggled with depression as a teen, and received therapy for PTSD in 2019.
She is polyamorous and currently identifies as pan grey-asexual idemromantic. She uses both she/her and they/them pronouns. Thinking about her own gender too ...more

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	My Lord 4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2020 — 6 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
	Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology by Cliff Jones Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tessa B. Dick, Elizabeth Roderick (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Bad Neighborhood (Misfit Horror Anthologies #1) by Fox Emm (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Richard Ayre (Goodreads Author), Louisa Bacio (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	They Call Him Lucius 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	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
	Folk Tales From The Hinterland by April-Jane Rowan (Goodreads Author), L.B. Shimaira (Goodreads Author), Jamie Rose (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021	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
	Somniscope: A Dreampunk Convergence by Cliff Jones Jr. (Goodreads Author), Jeff Noon, Kristin Jacques (Goodreads Author) 4.88 avg rating — 8 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
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“I want to be the one to tame you, but without breaking you. I wish for you to entrust your soul to me.”
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“You try to comfort yourself with visions of events that didn’t happen, but that doesn’t mean that what did happen left no scars.”
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