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Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine
2025
First Published
300
Number of Pages

A strange and sinister debut from Stephen Dixon Award–winning author Kristina Ten. The new kid in school discovers a diabolical presence in the depths of an English-language-learning CD-ROM. A declining empire, in its last desperate gasp, designs an elaborate matchmaking system around cootie catchers and soda-can tabs. A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth, haunted by a lost friend. In each story, the game has been twisted. In each game, players must make their own rules. Through a bloody, shattered lens, the artifacts of growing up take on a new and disquieting power—riddles remain unsolved, pranks have perilous stakes, and superstitions won’t save you. Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone terribly wrong, the twelve genre-crossing tales in Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine wrestle with themes of memory, disobedience, alienation, belonging, and the horrors of inhabiting a body others seek to control.

Author

Kristina Ten
Kristina Ten
Author · 3 books
Kristina Ten is the author of Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine (Oct. 2025, Stillhouse Press). Her stories appear in McSweeney's, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She has won the Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. Ten was educated at Emerson College (BA) and the University of Colorado Boulder (MFA), and is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. She has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is her debut story collection.
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