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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Lorraine Wilson's "Bathymetry." For the story's content warnings, please see the text of the story, here.


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Having spent many years working in remote corners of the world, Lorraine now lives by the sea in Scotland writing stories that are touched by folklore and the wilderness. She has published several short stories, and tweets @raine_clouds about science and writing (and cats). Her debut novel, This Is Our Undoing, is out in August 2021.
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The Lightning Road cuts far across the Cosmos, a streak of dazzling gold amidst the star-studded void.
daily you suppress it and ride the shame / like a surfer rides a monster wave,
somersaulting in continuous turns
two wolves lope / behind the Atlantic
The thing is; I don’t set out to write neurodivergent characters. I write people – fictional people who are drawn from the people around me, the way I experience the world, and my understanding of these experiences. Too bad if other people refuse to afford my experiences as being real or relatable.
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