My Friend Smiley

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, several birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Her work has appeared in her short story collections Wolves & Girls (2023) and Six Dreams About the Train (2021), as well as in Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Black Static, The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PseudoPod, Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Diabolical Plots, and elsewhere. Find out more on her website marihaskins.com.