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by Rhiannon Rasmussen

Published in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 194 (July 2026) | 1021 words
© 2026 by Rhiannon Rasmussen.

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Rhiannon Rasmussen

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Rhiannon Rasmussen is a print technician/prepress manager as well as a writer and illustrator of dark speculative works. Rhiannon’s fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Diabolical Plots, Vastarian, Magic: the Gathering, and lo-fi horror short story collection The Maidens of Midnight from Dim Shores. Find more at rhiannonrs.com or @charibdys on Bluesky.

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