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    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color: A Tor.com Original
    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color: A Tor.com Original
    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color: A Tor.com Original
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    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color: A Tor.com Original

    By Sunny Moraine

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    Haunted by starlings in the dark, a young woman spirals into an altered state of consciousness.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 31, 2017
    ISBN9780765398345
    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color: A Tor.com Original
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    Sunny Moraine

    SUNNY MORAINE is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and generally weird stuff, with stories published in outlets like Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, and Uncanny Magazine. A refugee from academia and the possessor of a PhD in sociology, Sunny also writes, narrates, and produces a serial horror drama podcast called Gone, and served as a writer on the Realm fiction podcast series The Shadow Files of Morgan Knox. They live near Washington, D.C in a house that may or may not be haunted with their husband and two cats.

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      Her friends haven't spoken to her in a long time and she has no idea when she's taken her last dosage of medication. Someone is watching from the shadows and the woman is being haunted by birds. There's only one way she can deal with them...

      Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color is a beautiful heartbreaking story. I was impressed by Sunny Moraine's skilled way with words. The story reads like poetry and I was blown away by their writing talent. The woman in the story deals with creepy magical creatures and shadows that are watching her. She's in a spiral that can only go one way. Picturing what she's going through gave me a lump in my throat and I literally felt it in my stomach. Sunny Moraine knows how to make their readers feel, there's a certain inevitability to this story that moved me to tears. Their writing has a rawness and spine-chilling emotion that will stay with me for a very long time.

      Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color is a brilliant short story. It's thought-provoking, alarming, vivid and mysterious. I loved that there's so much room for interpretation. The combination and overlap of fantasy and mental illness is tragic and profound. I admire authors who don't need many words to tell an intelligent multilayered story. I loved how Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color keeps evolving in my mind. I've read it more than once and each time something new pops out and makes me ponder. This story is incredibly special and I will read it over and over again.

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    Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color - Sunny Moraine

    Starlings whisper from the bamboo.

    Sometimes sense emerges. It’s nothing but pattern recognition run amok, nothing but old instinct performing where it’s no longer needed, but the experience is pleasurable. If you stand in the driveway at dusk and remain silent, let it settle around you like a gray blanket, then make a single small movement, the sound explodes. They are easily startled. More, they hiss warnings to each other with their wings. They too are governed by instinct. When they come they mark the last days of fall and the first of winter. They do not arrive but with the cold; they bring the chill with them, clinging to their

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