A maelstrom of sensory input, overwhelming and fracturing your attention.
Marisca Pichette
Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. More of her work appears in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Nightmare Magazine, and others. She is the flash winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest and has been nominated for the Best of the Net, Pushcart, Utopia, and Dwarf Stars awards. Her speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, is out now from Android Press.
Short Interview
1. Write a 10-word sentence that embodies how you understand sensory overload.
- A maelstrom of sensory input, overwhelming and fracturing your attention.
2. What smell/s would your story be?
- Silt, mold, electrical fire, rotting vegetation, bleach.
3. What did you intend your audience to feel when reading your piece?
- Desperation as well as defiance, doom alongside destiny.
4. Describe your favorite type of light.
- The otherworldly light that emanates from snow at night, seeming to glow of its own innate ability.
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