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Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)

Caitlín R. Kiernan

First published May 2015
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

"Twins on a murder spree travel across the southern US. Then someone gets the jump on them and tries to do to them what they've been doing to everyone else." — Dan Smyth

Notes

Per copyright credit in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine, "Originally published in Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014."

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (14)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 2015 The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine Solaris Anthology 205
May 2015 The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine Solaris Anthology |11
May 2015 The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine Solaris Anthology
August 2015 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven Night Shade Books Anthology
August 2015 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven Night Shade Books Anthology 123
November 2016 Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror Tachyon Publications Anthology 345
March 2017 Dear Sweet Filthy World Subterranean Press Collection 271
March 2017 Dear Sweet Filthy World Subterranean Press Collection |28
February 2019 The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan Tachyon Publications Collection 387
February 2019 The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan Tachyon Publications Collection |20
February 2021 Dear Sweet Filthy World Blackstone Publishing Collection |28
May 2021 Dear Sweet Filthy World Blackstone Publishing Collection |28
May 2021 Dear Sweet Filthy World Blackstone Publishing Collection |28
April 2024 Dear Sweet Filthy World Drugstore Indian Press Collection |28