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    Bad Omens
    Bad Omens
    Bad Omens
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    Bad Omens

    By Jessica Drake-Thomas

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    "Bad Omens by Jessica Drake-Thomas begets a canticle of death and resurrection, a spell for love and revenge, a bellow to claw your way out of the dark and back into this world with fire in your heart. Gothic and mystical,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuerencia Press, LLC
    Release dateJan 21, 2023
    ISBN9798869341587
    Bad Omens
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    Jessica Drake-Thomas

    Jessica Drake-Thomas is a gothic horror poet and novelist. She's the author of two collections of poetry, Burials and Bad Omens. She's a poetry editor at Coffin Bell Journal. When not writing or reading, Jessica is listening to true crime podcasts, baking scones, walking her labrador, and committing witchcraft and mayhem under the full moon.

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      Book preview

      Bad Omens - Jessica Drake-Thomas

      BAD OMENS

      JESSICA DRAKE-THOMAS

      Bad Omens

      Jessica Drake-Thomas

      A picture containing logo Description automatically generated

      Querencia Press, LLC

      Chicago, Illinois

      QUERENCIA PRESS

      © Copyright 2022

      Jessica Drake-Thomas

      All Rights Reserved

      No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.

      No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with the written permission of the author.

      Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      ISBN 978 1 959118 09 1

      www.querenciapress.com

      First Published in 2022

      Querencia Press, LLC

      Chicago IL

      Printed & Bound in the United States of America

      This anger endangers one’s hold over convention. It places one beyond the pale. It announces one’s emerging self… (This anger) expresses love and an unwillingness to accept anything but love in return.

      –María Lugones

      For my mother, who has always encouraged both the writer and the reader in me.

      CONTENTS

      SPEAK TO ME

      WHEN MY FEET TOUCHED DARK SOIL,

      HELHEST (Hel’s Horse)

      UNTITLED

      THE LOVED ONES

      DESCENT

      BAD BROOD

      READING IN THE BATH

      BOOK OF THE DEAD

      RUSSIAN DOLL

      VENA AMORIS

      COLD MOON RITUAL

      DARK ALCHEMY

      THE DEVIL//THE LOVERS

      BLOOD OATH

      FENRIR

      THE WOLVES

      ANATOMICAL VENUS

      THE ASH TREE

      OBSESSIONS WITH TRAGEDIES

      TWO OF SWORDS

      PUT THE BONES BACK

      SEA-WITCH

      BELLADONNA

      OCCLUSION

      THE EMPRESS REVERSED

      THREE OF SWORDS

      OPHIOPHAGY

      LA FÉE VERTE

      UNKNOWN COUNTRY

      THE BONE THIEF

      1466 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE

      DARK CANTICLE

      DEATH

      OUROBOUROS

      QUEEN OF THE CROSSROADS

      NOTES ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATONS

      NOTES

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      SPEAK

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