A.L. Blacklyn

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Stories from a liminal mindscape

A.L. Blacklyn resides in the Southeastern United States with their eccentric family in a weird house on a strange lot mostly left to nature. Their past job experiences—in what feels like separate lives—were within farm labor, corporate bookselling, food service, general retail, government administration, recreational instruction, and other industries.Their published work has appeared within speculative fiction periodicals such as Martian Magazine, Stupefying Stories, and The Deadlands.See below for a more complete list of publications.

2023 publications“Mandatory Chronolog” (Martian)“Call Assist: Home" (Martian Issue 9)"When Time Flew to the Floor" (Off Topic Publishing)“FlabbergastedTranquilitySeaTurtles” (Dark Moments: Year Five)“Sighting of Siren” (Martian Issue 8)

previous years' publications...poetry...“Seven Things You Have Helped Me to Remember” (The Deadlands Issue 6)“Stellar Satellite” (Frozen Wavelets Issue 6)“Werespider” (Frozen Wavelets Issue 5)“From Guts to Moon Dust” (Polu Texni)“Gifts of Gods and Men” (The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 10 No. 1)“A Hermit’s Day” (Frozen Wavelets Issue 2)...flash fiction...“The Conflict at Hand” (Stupefying Stories)“Better Latte Than Never’s” (Dark Moments)“Beating Dead Horses” (first version published by Ad Hoc Fiction)...short story ebook...“Grotesquery” (Kindle Direct)