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aliyahmk

writer & lover of Black queer horror • none of us are free until all of us are free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 • sydney, aus

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The Argonauts
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Martyr!
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Bat EaterITCH!Vagabonds!

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  • Salt Slow
    aliyahmk
    Dec 14, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    julia armfield writes horror with such a delicate touch, finding gore in the normalcy of everyday devastation. my favourites of this collection are the great awake, cassandra after and salt slow; i find armfield’s words most urgent and captivating when they are meditating on grief and moving onwards.

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    aliyahmk's 2025 Reading Challenge

    5 of 5 read
    Stag Dance
    Salt Slow
    Martyr!
    The Gilda Stories
    Penance
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  • Salt Slow
    aliyahmk
    Dec 14, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    julia armfield writes horror with such a delicate touch, finding gore in the normalcy of everyday devastation. my favourites of this collection are the great awake, cassandra after and salt slow; i find armfield’s words most urgent and captivating when they are meditating on grief and moving onwards.

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  • aliyahmk completed their yearly reading goal of 5 books!

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    aliyahmk's 2025 Reading Challenge

    5 of 5 read
    Stag Dance
    Salt Slow
    Martyr!
    The Gilda Stories
    Penance
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    aliyahmk commented on aliyahmk's review of The Gilda Stories

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  • The Gilda Stories
    aliyahmk
    Dec 14, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    ”You must also remember, later, when time weighs on you like hard earthenware strapped to your back, it is for love that we do this.”

    jewelle gomez’ the gilda stories is almost an anti-epic. it rebuilds the often harsh and sharp vampire mythology into something smooth and tender, more interested in earth and spirit than in action. in the gilda stories, vampires are made from subtleties rather than from fanged teeth and bat wings and capes. gomez’ prose is rich, considered, concise and—like the vampires within these stories—always offering something in return for your time.

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    Fevvers_'s 2025 Reading Challenge

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    Lullaby
    Record of a Night Too Brief
    In the Dream House: A Memoir
    Jacob's Room
    The Wasp Factory
    My Throat an Open Grave
    H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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  • The Gilda Stories
    aliyahmk
    Dec 14, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    ”You must also remember, later, when time weighs on you like hard earthenware strapped to your back, it is for love that we do this.”

    jewelle gomez’ the gilda stories is almost an anti-epic. it rebuilds the often harsh and sharp vampire mythology into something smooth and tender, more interested in earth and spirit than in action. in the gilda stories, vampires are made from subtleties rather than from fanged teeth and bat wings and capes. gomez’ prose is rich, considered, concise and—like the vampires within these stories—always offering something in return for your time.

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    Tillinghast: A Novel

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