Lyndsey Croal is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction, with work published in several magazines and anthologies, including Flash Fiction Online, ElectricLit, and Mslexia's Best Women's Short Fiction 2021. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, former Hawthornden Fellow, and a Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant Recipient. Her debut novelette “Have You Decided on Your Question” was published in April 2023 with Shortwave Publishing. Find her on Twitter as @writerlynds or via www.lyndseycroal.co.uk.
I stare down at the silver stamp on my hand that cost me my life savings – my one-time admission to the Rift, the place where souls who die in space go to rest. Around me, the passenger shuttle is packed full of a mix of tourists and visitors like me that have come to […]