Midnight Echo Issue 20
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Everything has a beginning. Every serial killer has their first kill, every cult its first member, every cryptid its first sighting, every doorway opens for the first time.
ME20 explore such origins. Tales where the first step into darkness is taken, perhaps hesitantly, or perhaps with delight - and whatever that darkness may be. Dark and mean tales, uncomfortable ones...
With stories, poems, non-fiction, and art ranging from cosmic horror to the apocalyptic, with everything in-between (including ghosts, ant people, weird blob things, necromancy, and more).
After all, everything begins... even the end.
Kirstyn McDermott
Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian author of two award-winning novels, Madigan Mine and Perfections, along with numerous pieces of short fiction and poetry. Her most recent works are Winterbloom (winner of 2023 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novella), Hard Places, a collection of short fiction, and Never Afters, a novella series of retold fairy tales now collected in an omnibus edition. Kirstyn holds a PhD in creative writing and lives in Ballarat, Australia, with fellow writer Jason Nahrung and two distinctly non-literary felines. www.kirstynmcdermott.com
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