Emily C. Skaftun
Excerpt
Victor didn’t hear the music anymore. Not with his ears, at least; they’d quit on him a long while back. More recently the fleshy seashells that people called ears had fallen clean off, first the right, then the left. Victor pulled a stocking cap down over the place where they’d been, and no one ever questioned it. It was cold in the van.
Still, there was another part of Victor that heard every endlessly repeating note, singing along in a childish chorus of voices: "See see, my playmate, come out and play with me . . ."
Bio
Emily C. Skaftun is a writer of (predominantly) speculative fiction, and an Editorial Assistant at Every Day Fiction. She has an MFA in creative writing from Roosevelt University, is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop ('09), and would happily do nothing but read, write, and workshop fiction. Alas. Currently, Emily teaches writing at a variety of local colleges.
Publications
Apology for Fish-Dude, Ideomancer
Last of the Monsters, Strange Horizons
My Only Sunshine, FLURB.
Writing Description
I once dreamed that I was pitching my novel as "Romeo and Juliet in space." That is exactly the sort of fiction I DON'T write.
Goals
Optimistic goal: to draft a novel.
More realistic goal: six chapters of a novel.
I will post updates and excerpts at least weekly on my website.
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