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Blood and Desert Dreams
Y.M. Pang
2025 Aurora Award Winner
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 408
Y.M. Pang is a writer, occasional poet, and full-time alien who has carved a home in Ontario, Canada. She spent her childhood pacing around her grandfather’s bedroom, telling him stories of magic, swords, and bears.
Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. She has been a finalist for the Aurora Award and the WSFA Small Press Award. She is a submissions editor at tdotSpec Publishing, dabbles in photography during spare moments, and often contemplates the merits of hermitism. Despite this, you can find her online at www.ympang.com or on Twitter as @YMPangWriter.
the love song of house and lake
Gillian Secord
On Spec #133
Gillian Secord is a speculative fiction writer and Aurora Award finalist from Toronto, Canada, whose work has appeared in Fireside Magazine, Cossmass Infinities, and others. When she’s not writing, she’s scouring the city for good coffee shops and collecting vinyl.
She has two cats and has yet to convince either of the fuzzballs to pay rent. You can find her online at gilliansecord.wordpress.com and on twitter @GillianSecord.
2734 Hiyama
Max Lark
The Daily Tomorrow
Max Lark lives in Toronto, Canada, with two affectionately obstinate rescue cats. You can follow his writing at www.maxlark.com.
Rest In Plunder!
Sidney Ho
Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Vol. 4
Sidney is an artist based in Toronto with a short story featured in Pulp Lit Mag. When he’s not traveling the globe collecting ink from tattoo artists, he’s at home refining his charcoal drawings or expanding his DIY mechanics expertise. Sidney shares his work on Instagram: @cuddlepea.
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