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Marisca Pichette

Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. She has published more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and many others. Her poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Their eco-horror novella, Every Dark Cloud, is out now from Ghost Orchid Press.

The Show Must Go

Marisca Pichette

Cirque stole the elephant’s bridle from its gilded chest. In the lee where midnight loitered on the toes of dawn, Cirque pocketed all they could and fled the Stage for the last time. Weighed down by harlequin rockets, Soleil met them at the riverbank. She carried cherry bombs and nuclear fizzlers that glowed radium green […]

Mother Mollusk

Marisca Pichette

Muna is getting worse. Scales form around his scars, creep up his veins and cluster under his elbows. He won’t be able to stay on the shore with us much longer. In a matter of days, he’ll seek the sea. “Let me go.” He gasps his words, his voice rough and unfamiliar. Not the voice […]

White Ribbon, Grey Fur

Marisca Pichette

Briar coaxed her beat-up Volvo to reluctant life and headed down Route 116 toward the gas station. Briar’s father had run the gas station before the witches killed him, turned his organs to wind chimes that clacked soft music through the woods. They rolled his hair into hay bales. In the dark pre-dawn, Briar drove past their silhouettes, wheels of grass and sinew moist with dew.