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Placed into Abyss
2020
First Published
2.83
Average Rating
26
Number of Pages

From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse), a Tor.com Original short story. Chris would rather be anywhere but here, cleaning out his deceased, hateful grandparents’ house with his relatives. Each room he visits takes him back in time to another traumatic memory. To escape this house and his grandparents and his past, he’ll need to take time travel into his own hands. Content warning for fictional depictions of verbal, physical, and sexual child abuse. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Avg Rating
2.83
Number of Ratings
59
5 STARS
5%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
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Author

Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky
Author · 16 books
Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and is a graduate of Clarion West. Her work has been short-listed for the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Sturgeon Award, and placed second in 2010's Million Writers Award. In addition to numerous publications in magazines and anthologies, Swirsky is the author of three short stories published as e-books, "Eros, Philia, Agape," "The Memory of Wind," and "The Monster's Million Faces." Her fiction and poetry has been collected in THROUGH THE DROWSY DARK (Aqueduct Press, 2010). A second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, is forthcoming from Subterranean Press.
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