The Eerie Experience of Watching My Science Fiction Story Become Real

On May 13, I finally got to read my wayward science fiction story “It Is the Voice That Unnerves Me” in The Dread Machine. I had been submitting the story since the spring of 2019, and had thought many times about consigning it to the “retired” list. I knew every word, sentence and section break […] The post The Eerie Experience of Watching My Science Fiction Story Become Real appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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