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Helena Bell is a Nebula nominated speculative fiction writer currently living in Durham, NC. Her work has appeared in Copper Nicklel, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, The Indiana Review, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, among other places.
Hel has five graduate degrees including MFAs in Poetry and Fiction from Southern Illinois University in Carbdonale and North Carolina State University respectively. In 2013 she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington.
Her day job requires her to know more about the Subchapter S Revision Act of 1982 than you would consider healthy. She is also a certified cave diver and former SCUBA Instructor. She likes bees, semi-colons, and single malt Scotches. She hates writing bios.
Listing 3 stories.
For six straight years, Jack’s parents have forgotten to pick him up at the end of summer camp, leaving him stranded there year-round. But this summer, Jack’s dragon egg, a childhood gift from his grandmother, is finally going to hatch. While the egg offers Jack a chance at escape, it also comes between him and Nancy, his only friend.
In a futuristic world, a disgruntled person dying from a flesh-eating sickness has to rely on their robot to eat their diseased flesh. However, as the robot begins to act sentient and take on their appearance, the person fears the robot has other intentions.
Grade school girls at an ordinary Catholic school discover a nearby forest that turns them into Giants during recess. After the girls start to get injured, they have to decide if being free today is worth never being a giant again.