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It came from Laura Duerr
It came from Laura Duerr, @laura__duerr
Laura Duerr’s story “Vertical Flight” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 7 May 2021. I come from a family that loves wine, and I married into a family that also loves wine. My sister-in-law even worked at a winery for several years, which gave us all some insight into the industry as well as allowed us to try some wines we otherwise might never have even seen. It’s through her that I…
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Vertical Flight - Laura Duerr
New story! Vertical Flight - Laura Duerr, @laura__duerr
May 2021 Welcome to Quantum Ridge Vineyards! We’ll be tasting six wines today, all red varietals from the 2068 vintage sourced from Quantum Ridge vineyards across multiple universes. To answer a couple of the most common questions: yes, there is almost certainly a tasting going on in this exact spot in another dimension further downstream; and no, most likely you aren’t at that tasting due to…
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Another question for Laura Duerr
Another question for Laura Duerr, @laura__duerr
Q: Do you prefer your SFF as books or movies? A: While I have experienced phenomenal examples of both, I have to go with books, and not just because I’m working on one. I love being able to visualize the world and characters in my own way. I also think themes and messages can be conveyed more subtly, but also more powerfully through writing. Honestly, though, I might pick a third answer: comic…
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More about Laura Duerr
More about Laura Duerr, @laura__duerr
Laura Duerr is a speculative fiction writer from Washougal, WA, where she lives with her husband, a rescue dog, and two cats. When she isn’t conjuring words, she can be found hiking, reading, playing video games, or baking. This is her second appearance in Metaphorosis and her other stories can be found in Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, and Shoreline of Infinity. lauraduerr.wordpress.com,…
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May 2021
Metaphorosis TOC - May 2021 - with stories from @laura__duerr, Emmett Swan, @jabartles, and Mariah Montoya, and art from @DamiadanDanos
May 2021 Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents Vertical Flight — Laura Duerr The Song of the Moohee — Emmett Swan Leiprenese 101 — Jason A. Bartles The Nocturnals I — Mariah Montoya Cover art by Danos Philopoulos. Subscribe to our e-mail updates so you’ll know…
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It came from Laura Duerr
It came from Laura Duerr
Laura Duerr’s story “What Lies in Light” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 13 December 2019.
“What Lies In Light” originally began as an answer to a contest prompt, but I couldn’t let the story vanish into my hard drive after it was rejected. Shifting the setting from an Earth-based volcano to an alien planet let me play with all my favorite sci-fi world-building toys: how did StellBio…
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What Lies in Light - Laura Duerr
What Lies in Light – Laura Duerr
December 2019
I dream about the volcano again. The broad bowl of its crater is filled with shimmering light. I am standing at the rim like always, watching the warm and welcoming glow eddy and dance just a few feet below me in a swirling ocean of opal. I keep thinking I can see something beyond, or under, or within the lights, but it’s too distant to view clearly.
I hear voices, too. That’s new.…
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A question for Laura Duerr
A question for Laura Duerr
Q: Do you ever feel bad for what you put your characters through?
A:It’s funny that this question comes up in conjunction with this story because this is far and away the cruelest I’ve ever been to my characters. This story has a high body count (actually, this is only the second story in which I’ve killed a character), a narrator with a pretty high degree of self-loathing, and three other…
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