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by Erika Hammerschmidt

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Kea's Flight

Exiled as an embryo.

Autistic adolescent.

Ready for revolution.

A book cover with the title KEAS FLIGHT and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. Shows a young girl face looking over a chessboard made of ragged checkered fabric. The three pieces on it are a screw, a button, and the foot of a toy soldier. In the background is outer space, with a planet on one side, and a ship made of two cylinders on the other side.

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Kea's Landing

Between her ship's history

and her world's destiny...

A book cover with the title KEAS LANDING and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. Shows a young woman and a humanoid dragon walking on a woodland path. They are approaching a futuristic city, but the woman is focused on a reading tablet in her hand. Above them is an image of a face wearing electrodes on the temples, amid a school of clownfish.

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Kea's Migration

A new world.

A new rebellion.

An old mystery.

A book cover with the title KEAS MIGRATION and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. Shows a young woman in a leather dress and pilot cap, facing a small parrot that is perched on a branch and posturing threatingly toward her. Below this scene is an image of an underwater cave surrounded by flowers and crystals, in which a mermaid lies on her stomach reaching out a hand to a clownfish.

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Born on the Wrong Planet

Memoir of an Autistic Childhood

An orange book cover with black decorative corners and a black line drawing of a planet, with a woman's face visible in it. The title is BORN ON THE WRONG PLANET and the author is ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT.

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Lonely And Precocious

SF Short Stories

"The really autistic and science-fictiony one"

A book cover titled LONELY AND PRECOCIOUS, with the subtitle SF SHORT STORIES and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. A simple outer space scene partially showing two planets on a background of stars

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Loving And Precarious

SF Short Stories

"The one with all the messed-up interpersonal drama"

A book cover titled LOVING AND PRECARIOUS, with the subtitle SF SHORT STORIES and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. A simple outer space scene showing one tan-colored planet on a background of stars.

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Logical And Preposterous

SF Short Stories

"The one that just keeps screwing with your mind"

A book cover titled LOGICAL AND PREPOSTEROUS, with the subtitle SF SHORT STORIES and the author ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT. A simple outer space scene showing one blue-colored planet on a background of stars

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This Is How You Die

Short Story Collection

(curated by Ryan North)

(Mine is the final story, "Furnace")

Book cover of THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, illustrated with several red human silhouettes being injured in various ways

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Define a Dragon

and Other Tiny Foldy Books

A book about dragons, fairies,

wizards, definitions,

and finding magic in everyday life.

(And a few other tiny books too.)

A pencil drawing of the faces of two dragons. One looks mostly like a lizard or snake, but is exhaling smoke. The other looks more like a traditional dragon, with horns and spikes, but is opening its mouth playfully toward a butterfly.

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Why the Muskie Has No Toes

The bizarre and gruesome tale

of a Minnesota muskellunge

betrayed by its own toes.

(or, Why Erika Doesn't Usually Write Children's Books)

A digitally-mosaicized collage made of photos, showing a fish standing on the lake bottom on six insect-like legs. It is a book cover with the title WHY THE MUSKIE HAS NO TOES

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If the World Ended, Would I Notice?

Short Story Collection

A book cover with a painting of a planet, with a woman's face barely visible in it. The title is IF THE WORLD ENDED, WOULD I NOTICE and the author is ERIKA HAMMERSCHMIDT.

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Everything Happens for a Reason

(but nothing happens for a GOOD reason)

500 strips of a weird webcomic.

Cover of the book EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON BUT NOTHING HAPPENS FOR A GOOD REASON. Simple, stylized art of the characters Abby and Norma from the webcomic is shown on a screen, with more realistic versions drawn in colored pencil in the foreground, holding video game controllers as if playing their comic selves.

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Abby and Norma Minibooks

For those who like their weird webcomic in smaller doses.

Cover of the Abby and Norma Sociellany, one of the Mini-Books. The scene on the front is the characters Abby and Cathy, in the simple style of the comic, with speech balloons. Abby is saying the title of the book, and Cathy is saying WHEREIN ABBY MAKES FUN OF SOCIAL CUSTOMS. HOW DARE SHE.

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Low Blow 1/2: Spectral Analysis

(A Collaboration with Aaron Poliwoda)

Cover of the book LOW BLOW 1/2. Illustrated by Aaron Poliwoda with a picture of a pro wrestler.

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The Toucan Necklace

(A Collaboration with Aaron Poliwoda)

Cover of the book THE TOUCAN NECKLACE. Illustrated by Aaron Poliwoda with an image of a woman wearing a necklace that has a toucan-shaped pendant.

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Autism Conversations

(A Collaboration with Aaron Poliwoda)

Cover of the book AUTISM CONVERSATIONS. Illustrated by Aaron Poliwoda with assorted cartoon images.

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