Author

Gio Clairval

Gio Clairval is an Italian-born writer and translator who has lived most of her life in Paris, France, and now commutes between Lake Como, Italy, and Edinburgh, Scotland, followed by her pet, a giant pike. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine (Lightspeed), Galaxy's Edge, and several anthologies, including punkPunk! (Dog Horn Publishing), The Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (HarperCollins), Caledonia Dreamin' (Eibonvale Press), Darke Phantastique (Cicatrix Press), and Postscripts (PS Publishing). She can be found at KOSMOCHLOR: gioclairval.blogspot.com and she regularly haunts Twitter as @gioclair.

http://www.gioclairval.blogspot.com/

Mother Pilgrim

A foreign body has infiltrated one of the pods in the cargo hold. My Margarets, my beautiful babies, are in danger. A screen flickers into life, and my oversized heart bumps against my exoskeleton: Margaret S's faceplate is sitting crooked. There's something beneath her oxygen…

Maze

The white rat looks forlorn, sitting on a pile of empty clothes. Professor Talbot rolls her eyes. Apparently, Jeremy Turn, her assistant, was carrying the rodent snug in his breast pocket. It's a tradition among postgraduate wise-asses. But why did he strip, and where did he go,…

Like Reeds in Summer

Does my family name matter? I gave it up when I joined Ceres Edelman's house to become her willing slave, one of many men in her service. I was sworn to testify in my own words, and my deposition only recounts what I witnessed. Forgive my awkward ways. I was never videotaped…