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StarShipSofa 712 Laird Barron

1h 9m · StarShipSofa · 17 May 05:00

Main Fiction: "The Big Whimper" by Laird Barron

Laird Barron, an expat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

This story originally appeared in Weird World War IV, 2022.

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