Karen Heuler was born in Brooklyn in 1949. She wrote her first novel at age 11 (“It has luckily been lost to the ages”). She attended Long Island University, dropped out of school for a year and worked on Wall Street, then went back and finished her English undergraduate degree. After working at Dell Publishing’s crossword department for a year, she went back and got her master’s degree in English. Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in over 100 literary and speculative journals and anthologies. She’s won an O. Henry award and has frequently been nominated for other short fiction awards.
In Search of Lost Time by Karen Heuler
Hildy, who’s been experiencing odd gaps in her awareness, is hit with the news that she has cancer of the Tempora, a (made-up) part of the brain where the body experiences time. Her chemotherapy has an odd side effect: Hildy can now see auras around people in the form of colorful mists and vapors. What’s more, she finds that she can pull away bits of aura from other people and inhale it. It gives her the feelings and memories from the person she took the bit of aura from.
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