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Jan Stinchcomb was born in San Francisco. She has a doctorate in Comparative Literature and has taught at the University of Oregon, Austin Community College and the University of Texas Extension Program. Currently living in Santa Monica, she is a story editor for Paper Darts. She has been selected for The Best Small Fictions 2018 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. THE BLOOD TRAIL, a chapbook of dark fairy tales, is forthcoming in 2018 from Red Bird Chapbooks. Her novella, FIND THE GIRL, is available through Main Street Rag Publishing. |
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”The Last Time I Saw Her” Available in print in Black Candies: The Eighties. |
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”Touch Tank” Lost Balloon |
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”Ashley's Bracelet” Jellyfish Review |
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”The Medium's Daughter” Occulum |
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”Star Bar” Monkeybicycle |
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”Take Care of Them” Five:2:One |
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“Cradle Lake” Gamut |
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”We Are Guilty” WhiskeyPaper |
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”Nurture” Available in Atticus Review Print Annual, Volume 1, 2018 |
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”Questions for the Blue Collar Girl” Rabble Lit |
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”Uncouple” matchbook |
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"I Have to Ask" The Forge |
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“Bond Girl” and “Reunion” Hypertrophic Press |
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“The Beach Is the Original Safe Space” Storm Cellar 6.1. Available in print and ebook |
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“The Birds: Mitch Contemplates His Cross-Cultural Marriage” Entropy |
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“The Fetal Tissue Playset” (b)OINK |
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“The Courtship” and “I Feel the Same Way About You” FLAPPERHOUSE, issue #12-Winter 2017 |
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“Heroine Night” Jellyfish Review |
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“New Baby” New South Journal |
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“Rosamund’s Dress of Lace and Shame” Gingerbread House Literary Magazine |
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“Adult Daughters of Hybrid Murderesses” Paper Darts. Available in print in Paper Darts Volume Six |
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“Sever” The Wild Hunt |
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“Caw” Cease, Cows |
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“Rescue and Conquer” The Conium Review |
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“Annabelle’s Sleepover” “Strange Little Girls” (Belladonna Publishing, 2016) |
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“Purse Baby” Necessary Fiction |
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“The Fox Girl Revival” A cappella Zoo, Issue 12, Spring 2014. Available in print or view web version. |
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“The Pollen Camp” Happily Never After (Fey Publishing, 2014) |
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"The Woodsman" Luna Station Quarterly This story was included on Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year volume Seven, full rec. list. |
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"Monster Lilli" Bohemia |
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"The Mixed Children" Rose Red Review |
"Baboon" PANK |
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Find the Girl is available for purchase at Main Street Rag.
"On Easter Sunday of 1979, the devil deposited a banned book into my older sister's basket." |
Rapunzel's Tower
Read my reviews on the LSQ blog, where I discuss modern retellings of fairy tales.
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