“You don’t think about it, but your blood is viscous, and it takes the constant uphill battle of your heart to keep it moving. The blood did not want to mingle in our bodies, and the doctor squeezed my wrist painfully to force it out. And then he put a flat white ribbon around my wrist, a pressure bandage, winding it and pressing it close to keep the needle and the tubing in place.”
Elana Gomel, “A Flat White Ribbon”
Born in Ukraine and currently residing in California, Elana Gomel is an academic, an award-winning writer, and a professional nomad. She is well-known in the academy for her work on speculative fiction and narrative theory, including books such as Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism and The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy. A member of Horror Writers of America (HWA), she is the author of many short stories, two collections, several novellas, and eight novels of dark fantasy and science fiction. Her stories appeared in Best Horror of the Year, The Dark magazine, Apex and many anthologies. Her latest novels are Nightwood, a fairy tale about exile, marriage, and monsters (Silver Award in the Bookfest 2023 contest) and Nine Levels, a mythological fantasy.
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