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Lynette Aspey
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Excerpt
I was used to obeying. Reaching down, I closed my hand around the stranger's scrawny throat and squeezed. I was the hens' executioner in my family and snapping this neck would have been little different, but there was something on the breeze that distracted me. My muscles bunched and locked and, for that instant I, and all about me, froze - not with a sudden chill, but stopped, like the hands of our old church clock.
(excerpt from "The Sons of Mathilda Klein," unpublished)
Bio
I'm something of a write-a-holic: any old scrap of paper, the back of sticky beer pads, anything will do when I've got the urge. Fortunately for the greater good, it is only on very rare occasions that any of this makes its way into the marketplace. Having said that, my poor word count vs. publication tally probably has more to do with the fact that I'm rarely satisfied (with my writing, thank you) and therefore I haven't submitted a story for (insert embarrassed mumble here). To prove that I'm not entirely hopeless, however, I will admit that the two stories that did pass the internal editor's scrutiny both found excellent homes.
Publications
Ah well, that's easy since there are only two, but both I'm rather proud of. "Exhalation," Aurealis #27/28 in 2000, and "Sleeping Dragons," Asimov's in 2004. My Asimov's story went on to two 'Best of' anthologies, which was a buzz.
Writing Description
Curse these pesky definitions! One minute I think I've got it nailed, and BOP! Up comes an idea that has absolutely no place in the same universe. I'd like to say that I write mythic speculation of fantastic proportion, but perhaps it would be more accurate to describe my writing as a little bit of this and that.
Goals
I've been promising my little daughter that one day I will make a book of the stories that I've been warping her innocent mind with for years now. She will be turning five in August, so it seems like a timely incentive to write them, print them out, and present them to her as a birthday present.
As I admitted last year, I'm not much good at asking for donations, so I'll commit to donating $10 for each finished story and sponsor as many of my mates as I can afford.
