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Marlee Jane Ward
Marlee Jane Ward writes speculative fiction and dreams of the future.
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Marlee Jane Ward is a writer living on Wurundjeri Land in Melbourne, Australia. She grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, studied creative writing at the University of Wollongong and is an alum of the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington.
She is the author of the award-winning Orphancorp Series (which is in early development for the screen.) Her short fiction is published in Aurealis, Apex, Interfictions, Terraform and others. You can find her non-fiction in Overland, Meanjin, KYD, Scum Mag and more. She writes memoir as Mia Walsch.
She spends most of her time managing the inside of her own head. She is living her dream of being an apocalypse witch and someone’s fabulous goth aunt.
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The Forgetting Navigations - Four
Published Jul 20, 2021 · 2,015 words (8 minutes) · 70 views
The Forgetting Navigations is a novella about two women who chase a killer across space when they'd rather be reading. This is part 4.
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The Forgetting Navigations - Three
Published Jul 16, 2021 · 1,174 words (5 minutes) · 100 views
Mystery Science Fiction space feminist
The Forgetting Navigations is a novella about two bookish women chasing a killer across space. This is chapter 3.
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The Forgetting Navigations - Two
Published Jun 29, 2021 · 3,676 words (14 minutes) · 1 like · 106 views
Science Fiction spaceship space quiet story
The Forgetting Navigations is a novella about two bookish women chasing a killer across space. This is chapter 2.
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The Forgetting Navigations - One
Published Jun 12, 2021 · 3,696 words (14 minutes) · 2 likes · 223 views
Science Fiction Women Books space tea
The Forgetting Navigations is a novella I wrote in 2018. I have attempted to sell it and had no luck. I want it to be read, so I'm posting it here in 4-6 parts. This story gnawed at me until I wrote it, the way that every trauma gnaws at you. The way you gnaw at yourself. It's a bow to every older woman who can teach you how to live without gnawing, 'cause she's learned how. It's a song to friendship and how it can give you something to tether you to life.
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Atavistacular
Published Dec 14, 2020 · 1,457 words (6 minutes) · 6 likes · 745 views
Science Fiction transhumanism It Girl portmanteau
You’ve never known embarrassment until you’ve shown up at a skinrave with the same facio-cranial avatar upgrade as your nemesis. Luckily, Cordite Hadli’s doctor will set her up with a proto-trend so unique, it’ll settle this rivalry once and for all.
Australian author Marlee Jane Ward is a graduate of Clarion West, and her work has appeared in Terraform, Apex, Aurealis, and more.
Content note: mature.
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Voyeur
Published Sep 27, 2020 · 2,606 words (10 minutes) · 1 like · 314 views
I think, when it comes to my writing, that there will be this dividing line between my ‘bleak’ phase and something else. I feel like I’m straddling that line right now: with no clear idea where to go from here, but with a distinct feeling that I need to make something less… sad. Can I write hope? Can I imagine something better than what I think we’re in for? I don’t know. Let’s see. Anyway, this is not that. This is from my bleak period. Enjoy!
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The Great House Thrippet, Season 246, Episode 12
Published Aug 3, 2020 · 2,882 words (11 minutes) · 1 like · 522 views
Piyel is part of a late-stage reality television dynasty, and she wants out.
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The Husband In Your Head
Published May 19, 2020 · 2,829 words (11 minutes) · 2 likes · 441 views
Literary Fiction Science Fiction dystopian post apocalypse
A wall, the things that hold us down, and longing.
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Starving to Death in Brunswick West
Published Mar 7, 2020 · 1,648 words (6 minutes) · 1 like · 1413 views
Science Fiction quarantine pandemic
The story of a quarantine told in recipes. Originally published on the now-defunct Australian short-story website 'Slink Chunk Press'. The only story I've ever written in 2nd person, and probably the only one I ever will.
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