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Cynthia Gómez writes horror and other speculative fiction, set primarily in Oakland, where she makes her home. She has a particular love for themes of revenge, retribution, and resistance to oppression. She has stories in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tree and Stone Magazine, and several anthologies. Her novelette, “The Shivering World,” was published in Volume Two of the Split Scream series. You can find her on Twitter at @cynthiasaysboo.


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4 Dec 2023

“Ask me something only I would know.” You say this to your wife because you know you’re human. You can feel it in the familiar ache in your back, and the fear writhing in your guts. You feel it in the cold seeping into your bare feet from the kitchen floor. You know you’re real because you remember.
now, there is the shape...humanoid, but not / necessarily human
He came from a salt mine that used to be solid all the way through
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