Blood Letters

GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon

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When your entire family is caught up in a world war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities, the only question that matters is: what are you willing to do to survive?

Siblings Kris, Albany, and Millie each inhabit a different part of the war—special ops and cannon-fodder at the front and codeworks behind the line—which transforms and transmutes how they think of themselves and their allegiances. They dump everything they know—confessions and consolations alongside poems for fallen friends and battleground sketches—into letters.

 

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With Blood Letters, Gordon and Chomichuk present a tense recounting of a war at once foreign and all too familiar—a powerful epistolary trek through the personal loves and losses of a single family forced to contend with the manipulation, dehumanization, and disruption that comes to define their lives. — AGA Wilmot, author of Withered and The Death Scene Artist

 

Blood Letters is an artifact from the future, a jumbled archive of robots, soldiers, dot-matrix print-outs, ID cards, propaganda posters, photos and maps: Human detritus offering hints that something has gone horribly wrong. Letters fly back and forth as siblings strive to stay in contact in a world at war. This cascade of communication, chaotic attempts at human connection, may ultimately be doing more harm than good. Family letters improve morale, which in turn leads to increased lethality. Love hurt —or in this case, kills.

Throughout Blood Letters, poems sustain our heroes. Art, then, shows us a possible way through. Wars end, lessons aren’t learned, wars begin again… but even among the destruction, Humanity marches on. A.G. Pasquella, author of Welcome to the Weird America, co-editor of Devouring Tomorrow

GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon

GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon

Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press and the poetry editor for The Goose . Her most recent books include Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate change across the prairies (and the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest). Her work has appeared recently in Best Canadian Essays 2025 and Prairie Fire’s 50 Over 50 special issue.


GMB Chomichuk is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in comics, graphic novels, books, role-playing games, film, television and theatre. He is the host of Super Pulp Science, a podcast about how genre gets made. His work in words and pictures ranges from the heartwarming to the bloodcurdling. Other works from GMB Chomichuk include Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal, Will I See? and The Automatic Age and The Backbone of Night.

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