Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine
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A strange and sinister debut from Stephen Dixon Award winner Kristina Ten
The new kid in school discovers a diabolical presence in the depths of an English-language-learning CD-ROM. A desperate and declining empire designs an elaborate matchmaking system around cootie catchers and soda-can tabs. A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth, haunted by a lost friend. In each story, the game has been twisted. In each game, players must make their own rules. Through a bloody, shattered lens, the artifacts of growing up take on a new and disquieting power-riddles remain unsolved, pranks have perilous stakes, and superstitions won't save you.
Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone terribly wrong, the twelve genre-crossing tales in Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine wrestle with themes of memory, disobedience, alienation, belonging, and the horrors of inhabiting a body others seek to control.
Kristina Ten
Kristina Ten's stories appear in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, McSweeney's, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She has won the Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder's MFA program in creative writing. Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine is her debut collection.
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