Marisca Pichette

Oct 11, 2024 | radonjournal.com | Marisca Pichette

​First they drilled my cavities away,enamel dust rising through sunset airand inside the holes: my first metal. It tasted like bloodand not like teeth—shadows where white once grew. A year on, they piercedmy skin again—needles followed earrings. My new spikes keep men awayand attract women usedto bleeding. I’m safer outside,but sleeping is hardcovered in sharpness. I lie on my side,my stomach, sit awakewatching the moon for days. I ask for claws next,hard steel on my toes,iron on my ladylike hands.

Sep 28, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Sneha Pathak |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace |Marisca Pichette

Rohan Monteiro’s Shadows Rising is a mythological fantasy featuring a yaksha, a celestial being found in Hindu mythology, as its central character. Akran, who was once a powerful yaksha warrior with friends in high places, has been living in Mumbai for a long time when the book opens. He keeps away from the prying eyes of the powerful celestials who banished him thousands of years ago for a crime he has no memory of committing.

Sep 25, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Tristan Beiter |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace |Marisca Pichette

Maressa Voss’s first novel, When Shadows Grow Tall, charts the intellectual sea changes of the Renaissance and Enlightenment and the origins of the security state. It ties together the questions of what might be asked of knowledge and what people are willing to endure for the impression of safety. These questions also feel salient and valuable in the modern world, and the novel asks them with deftness and style—even if it does not manage to follow through to possible answers.

Aug 1, 2024 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Marisca Pichette |Kate Baker

Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Vastarien, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and others. She is the flash winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest and has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Pushcart, Best of the Net, Elgin, Utopia, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars awards.

Jul 25, 2024 | unchartedmag.com | Marisca Pichette

Muna is getting worse. Scales form around his scars, creep up his veins and cluster under his elbows. He won’t be able to stay on the shore with us much longer. In a matter of days, he’ll seek the sea. “Let me go.” He gasps his words, his voice rough and unfamiliar. Not the voice I love. Not the voice I know. I look across the bed at Lila. I see my own gray fear echoed in their face. They dab at Muna’s skin, water running in the wrinkles around his eyes like tiny rivers searching for the ocean.