Mary E. Choo 
Mary E. Choo
Mary Choo's poems, stories, articles and reviews have appeared in/been accepted
by a wide variety of literary and speculative magazines, anthologies and online
publications in Canada, the U.S., and abroad. Credits include Sword and
Sorceress, Northern Frights and the Tesseracts anthology series. Her work has been on the
preliminary ballot of the Nebula Awards and the final ballot of the Aurora
Awards. 
Mary received an honourable mention for her poem "Jig" (ChiZine #30) in
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007.
[SNAFU Anthology, Paranormal Fiction, Issue One;
Objective Press and Ravine Screenprinting, Montreal, Canada 2008. ISSN
1916-0909. Price $12.95 Cdn.]
Her poetry collection,
Dream Tribes, received excellent reviews, and was on the preliminary
ballot of the 2005 Bram Stoker Awards, and her poem "Christina," (ChiZine
#22/), was selected for an honourable mention in The Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror for 2004. Mary also had a short story, "The
Ragged Man," in the January 2005 issue of SDO Fantasy.
Recent credits
include work in Dreams and Nightmares, ChiZine, and Lone Star
Stories, as well as story sales to Pseudopod – The Horror Podcast
Magazine, and the Paranormal Fiction Issue of the anthology SNAFU.
Mary Choo's short story,
"Killing Daniel," appears in the Paranormal Fiction issue of the new genre
anthology, SNAFU*, launched by Objective Press and Ravine
Screenprinting on June 9, 2008 in Montreal. SNAFU is a 5 ½ by 8 ½ inch
soft-cover publication, bound with brass Boston Bolts. The book has a striking
scarlet cover, and features text embellished by eighteenth-century style text
fonts and ornaments. This is the first issue of this ambitious anthology, with a
foreword by writer and former Books in Canada editor Peter Such. More
information, including submissions guidelines and ordering details, are
available on the SNAFU website at
www.snafuanthology.com.
Mary's introduction, "Bruce Taylor – A Passion For His Art," will appear in Magic Realist writer B
ruce Taylor's new book, The Tails of Alleymanderous and Other Odd Tales to be published by Subatomic
Press of Oregon in 2009. The introduction can also be found on the website
Mr. Magic realism/MRWIN under
Bruce Taylor **NEW**.
*Limited, numbered edition.
Member SF Canada
Member SFPA
You are
where there is no morning,
where long winds clot your withered throat,
and the hours are consumed
by the spider's dream.
In these high crypts
held brittle as forbidden trees,
where bones sift and fall
into distant white song
to call you is nothing,
a fire that turns in stone.
Through the garlands of grief
I heap along your tomb,
among their lingering fragrance,
behind the terrible walls, I know
the slow deliberate creep of the worm.
It is in memory's web,
where days seep blind
and chill as silver trumpets,
that you are folded in sunlight and silk,
your mouth filled with stars;
Yet here, deep
beneath your mantle of linen,
your hands that hold my severed roses,
veined cold as my heart,
revere silence
and only the thorns.
(c) 1996 Mary E. Choo. Work may be redistributed provided that the work remains intact and includes this copyright message. This work may not under any circumstances be resold or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from Mary E. Choo.