A slow-burn road trip through the southern United States.
A political landscape, tightening like a noose.
A story about what means to be seen, about freedom, about fear, about power and the many forms violence can take.
Originally published in Werewolves Versus: Everything, "Names and Addresses" is now available as a stand-alone work, featuring vicious, loving graphic design by Angela Quinton.
By Hugo-nominated short story author Blue Midnight Canis,.
5,800 words.
Content warnings: Political violence and transphobia, physical violence, body horror, gore.
"In Names and Addresses, Blue transmutes an entire pharmacy of conflicting impulses and desires into one methodical injection of intent. Anyone who's bristled at an assigned identity or the casual cruelty of the spitefully incurious will find catharsis within. This is body horror as praxis. Make it hurt." - Angela Quinton, author, editor, graphic designer, lycanthrope.
"Blue has written a ripper of a revenge tale. You'll want to sink your teeth into this one." -Riley Black, award-winning and best-selling author of When the Earth Was Green
Blue Midnight Canis (she/her; formerly Blue Neustifter) is a white, queer trans woman and 2022 finalist for a Hugo Award in the "Best Short Story" category for her epistolary story "Unknown Number". In addition to writing speculative fiction, she is a statistician, published board game designer, and unapologetic dyke She lives in Ontario and is trying to help make the world a little better how she can.