Metaphorosis December 2019 by Geoffrey W. Cole & Laura Duerr & Lewis Gershom & Phoenix Alexander

Author:Geoffrey W. Cole & Laura Duerr & Lewis Gershom & Phoenix Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SFF
ISBN: 9781640761537
Amazon: B07ZY7C6JQ
Publisher: Metaphorosis Publishing

See Laura Duerr’s story “What Lies in Light” online at Metaphorosis.

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About the story

“What Lies In Light” originally began as an answer to a contest prompt, but I couldn’t let the story vanish into my hard drive after it was rejected. Shifting the setting from an Earth-based volcano to an alien planet let me play with all my favorite sci-fi world-building toys: how did StellBio reach Janus? What communication challenges would they face? What sort of work were they doing on the island? What’s the ecosystem like? Is the air breathable? (For word count purposes: yes.) And what kind of person takes on a job investigating a shady mad-science corporation on a dangerous planet light-years from home? I’d never written any character as convoluted and flawed as Rosa, and I wanted to investigate other characters’ reactions to the mysterious light that tempts them. Are their responses driven by faith, desperation, madness, or some combination of the three? Plus, it was fun to write a world where the weirdest thing going on wasn’t the symbiotic relationship between turquoise alien cows and a fungus.

A question for the author

Q: Do you ever feel bad for what you put your characters through?

A: It’s funny that this question comes up in conjunction with this story because this is far and away the cruelest I’ve ever been to my characters. This story has a high body count (actually, this is only the second story in which I’ve killed a character), a narrator with a pretty high degree of self-loathing, and three other characters who confront past traumas. But I like to think everyone except Colin (sorry, Colin) got a happy ending, somehow. In everything I write, I want there to be an element of hope or redemption, so while my characters may go through challenges, they survive them and conquer them, and hopefully inspire readers to keep conquering the darkness their own lives.

About the author

Laura Duerr is a social media coordinator and writer of speculative fiction. A lifelong Pacific Northwest resident, she currently lives in Washougal, Washington, with her husband, their rescue dog, and too many cats.

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