Episode 5: “Marta’s Smile” by Maria Haskins

My dear friend Maria Haskins joins us with her haunting story, “Marta’s Smile,” based on the February theme of Secret Crush.

Host: R. B. Wood

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two children, several birds, a snake, and a black dog. Her short story collection Six Dreams About the Train & Other Stories was published in 2021. Maria’s work has appeared in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Black Static, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, and elsewhere.