Chris Kuriata lives in and often writes about the Niagara Region. Before focusing on fiction, he wrote and edited documentary series on true crime, hockey, and tent revivals. His debut horror novel, Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot, is available from Palimpsest Press.

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“The Corpse Child” came from a sketch in my notebook, of a small child riddled with anxiety, unable to sleep, while on the floor directly below the bedframe lay a corpse, its eyes open. Not long after drawing the picture, the circumstances around this situation began to form, prompting me to write the story. I enjoy how “The Corpse Child” is mostly a conversation between the two characters, as though it were a sketch on a ghoulish variety show.