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Kurt Fawver is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes through the cracks of genre. His short fiction has won a Shirley Jackson Award and been previously published in venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Aeons, Weird Tales, Vastarien, Best New Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He’s the author of two collections of short stories–The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press) and Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications)–as well as a novella, Burning Witches, Burning Angels (Dunhams Manor Press), and two chapbooks, Pwdre Ser (Dim Shores Publishing) and Problems in River Heights (Unnerving Press). He’s also had non-fiction published in journals such as Thinking Horror and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
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When a mysterious orange ball rolls through town, everybody does their best to ignore, but when curious children get a hold of it – the town spirals into sickness. Soon enough, all the town’s children have turned into the same orange ball that infected them, and the town struggles to find itself again.
Everyone knows the story of Amanda Rawling, the pregnant heroin teenage runaway, who threw herself out of a hospital window, but no one knows the story about the nurse who lied about her baby being stillborn.