Emily C. Skaftun : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Emily C. Skaftun is Editor in Chief of The Norwegian American, America’s only Norwegian newspaper, and writes about love and monsters in her spare time. Emily is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, Daily Science Fiction, and more. If Emily had a magic Helmet, she’d use it against traffic, chewing gum, and rain. Despite the inability (yet!) to vanquish rain, she lives just north of Seattle with her husband the mad scientist and two mini-tigers. She plays roller derby recreationally as V. Lucy Raptor.

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Emily C. Skaftun has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

The Thing With the Helmets

FICTION by Emily C. Skaftun in Issue 150 – March 2019

You couldn’t talk about the Helmets, which looked pretty ordinary displayed in a glass case in the lobby of the Smash Pad, the converted mattress warehouse where we practiced. They sparkled in all the colors of the rainbow, embossed with punny names and covered in glitter like any well-loved derby helmet, and the only hint […]

Melt With You

FICTION by Emily C. Skaftun in Issue 79 – April 2013

Even after being reincarnated as a plastic lawn flamingo, Irma still insisted that the scruffy panhandler on the I-95 off-ramp near our house had been Jesus. “We missed him,” she’d say, painted beak opening to reveal a mouth that did not lead to a windpipe or vocal chords or lungs. “We mistreated Jesus again and […]

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Emily C. Skaftun

The Thing With the Helmets

Melt With You