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| User: | alankria (8509288) 
Alankria
trailing words from her fingers in streaks across the brick walls
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| Name: | Alex D M |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Bio: | What am I?
A bone and flesh drawing of girl, my hands covered in keyboard-ink, my hair sneaking off in the night to eat small animals. I sit on the island-edge of the Atlantic and tap-tap stories, most of them fantasy-flavoured.
  
Short Fiction:
"Snowdrops" in LCRW -- forthcoming
"Two Coins" in Electric Velocipede -- forthcoming (Nov 08)
"Chica, Let Me Tell You A Story" in GUD Magazine -- forthcoming (autumn 08)
"Tattoos of the Sky, Tattoos of the Days" in Sybil's Garage #5 [ ToC + buy ]
"Praise and Criticism for M. Rekling's The Bottle" in Farrago's Wainscot #5, January 2008
"Roseilda's Tale" in Reflection's Edge, Issue 26, June/July 2007
"The Beautiful Collection" in Crimson Highway, February 2007
Very Short Fiction:
(under 500 words)
"The Switches You Have To Search For" in Star*Line (prose poetry issue) -- forthcoming (Nov/Dec 08)
"Juniper Grave" in Shimmer -- forthcoming
"The Life and Times of a Hungry World, Told Briefly" in Kaleidotrope #4 [ ToC | buy ]
"Jumping Over the Moon" in Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, Raven Electrick Ink [ ToC | amazon ]
"The Essay Alchemist" in Behind the Wainscot, Issue 8, October 2007
"An Epic of Egg-like Proportions" in Behind the Wainscot, Issue 3, March 2007
Stories at The Daily Cabal:
The Switches You Have To Search For | Bear | New Year's Wishes | The New Language of Masks | The Storyteller is Swallowed | Notes - 29/14/106 | On The Stairs, She Realises | Overheard in a Countryside Inn | Left in her Cupboard | Dinner at 'Gaststätte des Flußmädchen' | Only for Today | In Oranges
Poetry:
"Obedience on the Pyre" in The Pedestal Magazine, October-December 2007
"Old House" in Goblin Fruit, Autumn 2007
Editorial:
The Five Senses issue of Behind the Wainscot, September 2007
Featuring fiction by Yoon Ha Lee, Stephanie Campisi, Rudi Dornemann, Becca de la Rosa and Lisa Mantchev.
When not writing fiction for fun and a pittance or proof-reading military specifications for a living, I can also be found writing reviews for The Fix and reading.
Chapter One of The Bone Queen, a novel-under-editing: here
The Ephrebet Bed, a novel in progress.
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| Memories: | 15 entries |
| Pictures: | over 50 public |
| Interests: | 60: adult fairytales, aesthetically beautiful brain-stimulating zines, alexander the great, ancient history, andrew bird, atheism, augie march, batshit sexy anime, bi-sexuality, black books, cashew nuts, cats, devotchka, editing, fairy tales, fantasy, firefly, flash fiction, flowerpunk, folktales, foxes, gladiator, house md, intelligence in art, legend of zelda, lolcats, lolspeak, manga, marks & spencer goodies, milky chocolate, muses, mythology, mythpunk, narrative motifs, nested tales, new weird, oracles, poetry, post-historic scifi, red dwarf, science fiction, short stories, slipstream, small press weird, space opera, spices and herbs, starfox, stationery, steampunk, stories within stories, story cycles and transmissions, storytelling, surrealism, the achaemenid empire, the epic of gilgamesh, the etched city, the orphan’s tales, the stories of alexander, white wine, writing |
| Schools: | Pennthorpe School - Horsham, England - West Sussex, United Kingdom (1991 - 1997)
Farlington School - Horsham, England - West Sussex, United Kingdom (1997 - 2002)
Lancing College - Lancing, England - West Sussex, United Kingdom (2002 - 2004)
King's College, University of London - London, England - Greater London, United Kingdom (2004 - 2007)
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