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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to Richard Thomas and Dark House Press for believing in this book, and to Alban Fischer and George Cotronis for their fantastic art.
Thank you to Linda Epstein for helping me when the story was ugly and full of holes.
Thank you to my friends for your support, especially my Wolfpack. Lena, Mike, Katrin, Joe, Justin, Anya, and Scott, I love you all.
Thank you to the writers who inspire me every day—Livia Llewellyn, Helen Marshall, Laird Barron, and John Langan.
Thank you to E. Catherine Tobler and Kristi DeMeester for always being willing to beta read.
Thank you to my family for their love and support.
And to the readers: without you, the words mean nothing at all.
DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015, Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One, Cassilda’s Song, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Apex Magazine. She was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for “The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” originally published in Jamais Vu. Sing Me Your Scars, a collection of short fiction, was released in 2015 from Apex Publications. Find her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or on the web at http://damienangelicawalters.com.
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