QSFer Holly Wade Matter has a new lesbian sci-fi horror book out: Memorabilia.
In the restless mists of an apocalyptic city, the only thing worse than amnesia might be memory.
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Excerpt
Listening to the tape-loop of a dead girl’s voice:
“‘Old Paris is no more,’” she says, her voice thinner and thinner each time the tape-loop plays.
This is not Paris. But I understand the message now.
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I carried what was left of Sarah to the dumpster. I wanted to lower her in gently, but I dropped her.
She landed with a hollow-metal thud.
I said, “Sorry, Sarah.”
My suit was wet with sweat, and with Sarah’s blood. I stripped off the jacket and spread it over her, and sat back on the cracked, steaming pavement, waiting for my vision to clear. The searchlights thrust their broken fingers into the alley’s throat.
In the distance, a siren wailed.
Author Bio
Holly Wade Matter’s short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Century, and the Bending the Landscape anthology series. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her debut novel, Damned Pretty Things, is out from Aqueduct Press. She lives in Seattle with her husband Brad and two house rabbits.
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