Deliver UsMy midwestern folk horror story is the fourth chapter of this anthology. Dark Lake Publishing, 2022
Sydney Koeplin
Editor and writer with a special interest in speculative fiction. She won the Elmira Nelson Jones Prize for Creative Writing from Colby College in 2021.
Charlotte, NC, United States
Books
Selected work (5 publications)
Points of Entry"At twenty-three years old I still ask others to kill my bugs. I hate the feeling of the exoskeleton giving away. I hate the crunch, the squish of pus-colored goo that seeps out beneath a shoe or the folds of a napkin."
Essay
Saint Maria's Home for Murdered Girls"You don’t remember being told you were dead. You just knew. You were dead and sitting in a chair and there was a woman in front of you and you didn’t understand that, because you were dead."
Short Story
Fiction
Mother of Octopi"Before we left that morning, the two men had warned us that octopus hunting was not for the faint of heart; after spearing the octopus you had to kill it quickly, and the best way to do that was to bite into its brain. Right between the eyes."
Travel writing
Sharks and Shipwrecks"Water lapping at the leftover concrete echoed throughout the hull. From the outside, I’d thought it looked like a skeletal grin, but once inside, I realized that was wrong; the ship was a rib cage, and I had breached its chest cavity."
Travel writing
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