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Alicia Swain (she/her) is the author of Steel Slides and Yellow Walls (Belle Isle Books, 2025). Her poems appear in publications such as Roanoke Review, the engine(idling, and Vast Chasm. Her piece titled “Return Me to the Womb,” published in FLARE Magazine, was nominated for Best of the Net 2026.

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I received an ARC of Under the Weatherman by Mary Ann Marlowe in exchange for an honest review. For those of you who know me well, it might surprise you to see me review this genre. Often, the premise of a romance novel leaves me uninterested because, at my core, I am not much of a romantic. I do not long for a bouque

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The Message

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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

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“All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night”
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