
Today I have the honour of being an actual-real Strange Horizons author! My weird tale, “The Stitch Beneath the Ice,” went live this afternoon, accompanied by vivid art by Mateus Manhanini and a great podcast narration by Anaea Lay. This particular tale was born of family history and/or lore–it’s not always easy to separate fact from fancy nearly 100 years on, and when an author intrudes with her own sizeable artistic licence, well… This is what happens when a weird tale/fantasy writer ponders the fact that her maternal great-grandfather was a casket-liner by trade and a rumrunner during Prohibition. While she’s living in much more temperate Euro-climes and dreading her eventual return to Canadian winters. Who adores The Terror series, Freidrich’s “The Sea of Ice,” and gripping Gothic Arctic landscapes in general. And who, like many Canadians, has been dealing with mounting anxiety about that border to the south since 2016.