The Measure of Sorrow

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“The Further Shore,” originally published in Bourbon Penn #15, March 2018.

“Old Growth,” originally published in SQ Mag #31, June 2017.

“The Moth Tapes,” originally published in Aurealis Magazine #117, February 2019.

“Our Last Meal,” originally published in In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep: An Anthology of Australian Horror, edited by Cameron Trost, Australasian Horror Writers Association, 2015.

“The Black Massive,” originally published in Dimension6 #21, October 2020.

“The Face God Gave,” originally published in Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, edited by Sarah Read, Pantheon Magazine, 2019.

Three lines of “I have many brothers in the south . . . .” from SELECTED POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE: A Translation from the German and Commentary, by Robert Bly Copyright © 1981 by Robert Bly. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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