Karen Heuler (www.KarenHeuler.com) lives in New York City. She is the author of several novels, including Journey To Bom Goody (2005), The Soft Room (2004), and The Other Door (1995). Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in more than sixty literary and speculative journals and anthologies, including several “Best of” collections. She has received an O. Henry Award and has been short-listed for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the Bellwether Prize, and the Shirley Jackson award, among others. She’s published a short-story collection and three novels. Her latest novel, The Made-up Man (2011), is about a woman who sells her soul to the devil to be a man for the rest of her life—with unexpected results.
“Thick Water,” a story on the edge between sf, horror, and surrealism, was published in Albedo One, the fine SF magazine from Ireland. A crew of four people lands on a Solaris-esque planet. Three of the four go native, but what native turns out to be is very strange indeed.