J.S. Breukelaar is the author of the Aurealis-nominated novel Aletheia, and American Monster, a Wonderland Award finalist. She has published stories, poems and essays in publications such as Gamut, Black Static, Unnerving, Lightspeed, Lamplight and elsewhere. She is a columnist and regular instructor at LitReactor.com. California-born and New York raised, she currently lives in Sydney, Australia with her family. You can find her at www.thelivingsuitcase.com.
"The stories are ruthless, nothing is safeâeven the child who
offers a lollipop and loses a wrist to the Clint Eastwood dog.
Breukelaar experiments with the Gothic and queries the queer.
Bedded within the tales is a voluptuous energy that turns pages.
Tables pirouette in a blink and, before you know it, the story is
eleven shades grimmer." -- Eugen Bacon -- Breach Magazine
"J.S. Breukelaar's Collision is speculative fiction that crosses
genre. It is a medley of fantasy, horror and science fiction-now
and then in a single story, as in 'Rogue Bay 3013', with its lethal
angels and engineered beings, and in 'Like Ripples on a Blank
Shore', the closing novella about sentient hosts on rampage in
Deerport." - Breachzine Oct 2018
(5 Stars) "I immediately felt captivated by J.S. Breukelaar's
evocatively descriptive style, her convincing observations of human
behavior and the incisive quality of her dialogue. At times it felt
as though her characters, and the worlds they inhabited, were
leaping off the page, demanding my full attention. Although each of
the stories is very different, what remains constant throughout the
collection is the author's skill in drawing her readers into the
fantastical worlds she is describing. Yet these are worlds which,
albeit in slightly distorted ways, are often all too easily
recognizable, possibly because there is always an element of people
struggling to make sense of, and adjust to, the world they are
inhabiting." -- Linda Hepworth -- NB Magazine
"(4 stars) Collision transcends the borders of horror writing by
creating fantastical and near real-life world with simple twists
that keep them tangible but still impossible to predict." Rachel
Gonzalez, Paperback Paris
"Breukelaar's delectable prose draws in the reader, and I
frequently found myself in that perfect hypnotic state where I
forgot I was readingthe highest honour one can bestow on an author,
in my opinion." Kris Ashton, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine
"J.S. is leaving her footprints on a path blazed by luminaries such
as M.R. James, Robert Aickman, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Charlotte
Perkins Gillman, Jeff VanderMeer, Gustave Flaubert, Edgar Allan
Poe, Daphne DuMaurier, Leonora Carrington and Charlotte Brontë, to
name but a few." -- Angela Slatter, Award-winning author of
Sourdough and Other Stories, Vigil, and Corpselight
" Collision: Stories , should be on your ''must read'' list.
Breukelaar... writes in a clean, incisive style with razor-sharp
opening hooks, while blending the literary, the speculative, and
the weird." Paula Guran, Locus Magazine
"There's an ethereal and dreamlike quality to Breukelaar's prose
that demands attention and reflection that keep the reader
enthralled beyond the last page." Aimée Lindorff, Aurealis Magazine
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