The Memory of Breathing single work   novella   science fiction   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The Memory of Breathing
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'In her story "Memory of Breathing," Lyn Battersby posits a future where criminals are executed then reanimated in order to work as slaves. It’s an intriguing blend of modern sci-fi and a more classical conception of zombies, but the story plays out — predictably but poignantly — as a more intimate human drama, in which a hardened death camp commander gradually develops fatherly fondness for a reanimated child-corpse' (Tim Kroenert, Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus).

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine ASIM no. 17 February-March 2005 Z1249439 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 84-104
    Note: Written as: Lyn Triffitt
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror : Volume One Angela Challis (editor), Shane Jiraiya Cummings (editor), Woodvale : Brimstone Press , 2006 Z1342225 2006 anthology short story essay fantasy horror

    Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006 comprises twelve short stories and five essays of a diverse nature. The fiction ranges from unsettling to frightening, and from the humorous to sad, serving up encounters with zombies, killer glaciers, tortured inventors and samurai heroes among other subjects.

    Woodvale : Brimstone Press , 2006
    pg. 14-39

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