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Daniel Ausema

Daniel Ausema

Daniel Ausema’s fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots, and Fantasy Magazine. His latest novel is the second book of the high fantasy Arcist Chronicles, published by Guardbridge Books, and he is also the creator of the steampunk-fantasy Spire City series. He lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies and can be found online at https://danielausema.com and on Twitter @ausema.

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Life Cycle of a Shadow

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  • Daniel Ausema
| 20 Feb 2023 Features Fiction, Story dark, fantasy, horror, liminal, weird

Properly speaking, shadows are not those places where the light is blocked. In the earliest reconstructed languages, those places have no names, though the proto-word for shadow does exist. Shadows were the beings that lived in those places of blocked light. Through the corruption of time, they have lent their name to their native homes, been subsumed by them, been forgotten.

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