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A peripatetic writer of speculative fiction, Keyan Bowes has lived in seven countries and now calls the US West Coast home. With over forty published pieces, her work can be found in a dozen print anthologies and in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Worlds of Possibility, and Flame Tree Press. Clarion graduate, SFWA member. Website: www.keyanbowes.com


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16 Feb 2026

Water is life here, and it's evident in that if you stray too far off the beaten path and away from water, you will get lost and you’ll be lucky if anyone sees you again before sundown. My village is settled neatly between two gentle rolling mesas and along a thin river in a sparsely populated community lovingly called ‘the valley’.
In the beginning, the ocean was lonely / and so she created a fifteen-year-old girl / (or was it the other way around?)
It’s me not you, and the / Hole in the sky still weeps sticky tears.
Wednesday: Lies Weeping by Glen Cook 
Friday: Slow Gods by Claire North 
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