Effie Seiberg
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Award Eligibility 2025
If you only read one piece of mine this year, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything".
​Come for the superhero shenanigans, stay for the accessibility catharsis.


Laser Eyes Ain't Everything

Published in Diabolical Plots, 3,500 words
Long-listed for the BSFA Award

Locus Magazine said called it a "sharp satire" that's "fun and funny but doesn’t lose its bite"

The Super-Abled 501 Local Union building wasn’t ADA compliant.
I sat in my wheelchair next to the three steps that led to their front door, and groaned. My brand new laser eyes didn’t exactly fix my mobility problems.
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In the Void Behind My Deaths

Published in Factor Four Magazine, 1,000 words

In my first death I died alone, pierced through the belly with a velociraptor talon. I bled out before I felt much of anything, floating into a black void. It was quiet and and peaceful and still,

​and then I pecked my way out of an egg, slimy and cold.


By my third death, stomach empty from a particularly hard winter, I looked around. The blackness was a void, uniformly empty in all directions, darker than the blackest black. The emptiness brought peace, but loneliness.



Political Satire

I've written several of these this year. Here are a few to start with: 

Mission Report From The Tiny Alien Piloting RFK Jr's Body

An Automated Phone Tree for Your Brand New Alligator-Themed Detention Center (That Is Definitely Not A Concentration Camp) 

When Trump Definitely Totally Won The Space Alien Invasion



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