Vanessa’s new story

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray has a new short story published: “Coke Machine,” which won the “In the Spirit of Novelmania: My Ticket to Crazy Town” event at the 2021 Literary Stage competition, is now the second entry in Water Dragon Publishing’s Truck Stop at the Center of the Universe series. Join deaf, wisecracking, Ukrainian spaceship engineer Marichka as she contends with a hazardous-substance spill and an alien intruder. In addition, she received a Pushcart Prize nomination and a World Fantasy Award nomination for her story, “Heart’s Delight,” in Fault Zone: Reverse. You rock, Vanessa!