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In this debut story collection, Gianni Washington opens portals bridging the strange and the lonely to the gruesome and the intimate. Thirteen dark tales are told through the lenses of Black, female, and queer narrators, among others, which burrow deep into the heart of the gothic to challenge the conventional nightmare. Flowers from the Void unburies a haunted labyrinth of chilling alternate realities eerily similar to our own. A high school freshman is lured into a sinister pact with a classmate that will cost him more than he could ever imagine. A grieving African witch prepares for initiation into a 17th century Salem coven of white women. A girl with no shadow befriends one. Empathy and horrors collide to create a grimy discomfort that will never quite wash off. Otherworldly creatures, malevolent acts, and devastation consume these pages as Gianni Washington resurrects the skeletons in our closets and commands them to run amuck with a new zest for the macabre.

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"""Gianni Washington's debut collection gathers thirteen splendid tales rendered with the deft prose of a horror master. Deeply imagined speculative elements blend with mystery, suspense, ethereal settings, and haunting characters in a text both engrossing and powerful. With thought-provoking stories that make you feel, Flowers from the Void is a breathtaking and exquisitely penned descent into hell.""Tamika Thompson, author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked"

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Gianni Washington is an American writer with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from The University of Surrey. Her writing can be found in the Chicago Review of Books, West Trade Review, on Litromagazine.com, and in the horror anthology Brief Grislys, among other places. She resides somewhere in the ether with her cats Choko and Neal.

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