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Also by Michele Tracy Berger:

Doll Seed, October 2024
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Doll Seed
Michele Tracy Berger

Stories

Aunt Lute Books
October 2024
On Sale: October 1, 2024
296 pages
ISBN: 1951874072
EAN: 9781951874070
Kindle: B0DHNL5KT6
Paperback / e-Book
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Novella / Short Story | Women's Fiction | Horror

Michele Tracey Berger has a voice like no one else. —Julia Rios, Hugo Award Winning Editor

Doll Seed: Stories by Michele Tracy Berger is a dazzling debut collection of speculative short fiction. The stories span horror, fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism, but are always grounded in very real characters and beautifully rendered, distinctive communities. Often thematically centered on the lives of women and girls, especially women of color and their experiences of vulnerability and outsider status, these stories are often playful and always provocative.

Fifteen stories invite you to get comfortable in the dark, to consider freedom and sacrifice, trust and betrayal, otherness, and safety. Marisol, an aspiring jewelry artist is haunted by a fast-food icon. Chevella, a self-aware doll, finds herself in 1950s America playing a key role in the Civil Rights Movement. Lindsay, a Black girl in 1970s America “wins” an extraterrestrial in a national contest only to find her family's life upended. Chelsea and Jessa, two sisters, fight about what a strange child means for their family. A meat grinder appears in a magical forest and chaos ensues. All this and more.

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