The stories in What Blooms in the Dark imagine worlds where nature is magic, queer love transcends universes, and relationships pulse with the fear of inevitable grief. Capitalism preserves ghosts and produces cyborgs. Women are inspired by cicadas’ screaming songs and sparrows that transform into light. Each story puts into question the circumstances of the character’s life and what that means about their connections with everything around them, from the minutiae of flora and fauna to the very mechanics of the universe itself.

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Praise for What Blooms in the Dark

Beautiful, transformative, and endlessly imaginative, What Blooms in the Dark is a magical ode to queerness, freedom, desire, transformation, and what it means to return to your truest self. Told with narrative authority and lush lyricism, Carroll entrances and dazzles us with every story. You’ll be moved by this book’s big swinging heart and insistence on healing.

— Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Inventive and meditative, What Blooms in the Dark is a stunning collection. Whether grounded firmly in the contemporary or playing in the speculative, each story acts as a delicate strand in the rich tapestry of queerness, disability, and the intricacies of life woven among these pages.

— Rebecca Burke, editor of In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers