Shoshana Groom (she/her) is the Assistant Editor of PRISM for the ’24-’25 school year. She’s a 5th year sociology major, a First Reader for Strange Horizons, and the former Deputy Editor for The Quarryman at University College Cork. She was a winner of 45th Parallel’s Pandemic Resilient Cities SciFi Contest, and has work forthcoming or published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Corvid Queen, and Apricity Magazine, among other journals. When she’s not writing, she’s Country Western dancing and trying to stop her pet rat from destroying all her stuff.
CONTENT WARNING: this essay includes sexual images, including images of partial nudity, BDSM and torture, as well as discussions of torture, murder and rape.
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