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GRIM SERIES Popcorn Press Elkhorn, Wisconsin Trade paperback, 128 pages ISBN-10: 1479158895 ISBN-13: 978-1479158898 Publication Date: August 2012 List Price: $9.95 Cover design by Katheryn Smith BUY direct from the publisher • Barnes & Noble • Tower Books Amazon Kindle Edition • Amazon paperback edition 
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Press and Reviews for GRIM SERIES
Sample Poems from GRIM SERIES
- Reviewed by Francesca Forrest at Versification
- Reviewed by John Philip Johnson at Speculative Poetry Book Reviews
- Reviewed by Dawn at Horror Reviews for You
- Reviewed by Diane Severson for Amazing Stories' Elgin Award Nominee Showcase
- Reviewed by David Lee Summers for Tales of the Talisman
- Reviewed by Louis Cecile at Louis Cecile's Book Reviews
- included in the preliminary ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers Association
- nominated for the 2013 and 2014 Elgin Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
Sample Poems from GRIM SERIES
The Third Stranger
She claimed to be
the mother of the oceans.
We laughed at her
until she opened her mouth,
and we heard
the rush of the waves,
the sloshing of a thousand fishes.
In her breath was the smell of brine.
The Ninth Stranger
We cornered the ninth stranger in the dump.
She was crouching beside the
rubber tires and an upended couch.
Somebody prodded her with a shovel.
She opened her mouth, and the unborn
strangers scrambled out of her throat--
the doorway, my grandmother said.
One of the elders was quick enough to strike
her neck with an ax. Her head did not fall
down cleanly. It took another swing.
We cut her up. She did not bleed
when sliced open, was all flesh
and bone. Her entrails had long ago
been eaten by what she had let in
to grow inside her body.
Her limbs we left by the lake
for the pilgrims to find.
Her torso we took home for the boys.
