My short story "Where the Sky Is Silver and the Earth Is Brass" is now online at Uncanny Magazine.
I wrote this story over the last three nights of Hanukkah in 2018. It was supposed to be seasonal crack for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie, but history, as it has a habit of doing, got in the way. I remain proud that I checked the dates of Hanukkah in 1948—especially since they turned out to be partly in 1949—and otherwise stayed resolutely out of research K-holes. One name is drawn from my family and everything else is invented as far as I know. Of course, I said that about my very first dybbuk story and then it turned out my great-grandmother had a younger brother after all.
Nothing happens these days without echoes, so I feel as though offering a story about a demon and a partisan after the war must be some kind of incantation for survival: mir zaynen do, mir veln zayn do. It was published originally in Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann (ed. Farah Rose Smith, Ulthar Press 2019). I am very glad it has this other home.
I wrote this story over the last three nights of Hanukkah in 2018. It was supposed to be seasonal crack for
selkie, but history, as it has a habit of doing, got in the way. I remain proud that I checked the dates of Hanukkah in 1948—especially since they turned out to be partly in 1949—and otherwise stayed resolutely out of research K-holes. One name is drawn from my family and everything else is invented as far as I know. Of course, I said that about my very first dybbuk story and then it turned out my great-grandmother had a younger brother after all.Nothing happens these days without echoes, so I feel as though offering a story about a demon and a partisan after the war must be some kind of incantation for survival: mir zaynen do, mir veln zayn do. It was published originally in Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann (ed. Farah Rose Smith, Ulthar Press 2019). I am very glad it has this other home.
