Priya Sharma

Growing up in India and Libya, Priya Sharma was crumbling under the assaults of a ferocious, narcissistic, alcoholic father and disabling chronic migraines. At 18, she had lost her will to live when an ancient prophecy in the Bible transformed her life with joy and miracles. While battling an especially dark crisis, Priya learned about Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga meditation. Doctors at her hospital used a mysterious cool breeze flowing from her photograph to heal patients from 130 countries. They called this breeze "pneuma," mentioned in the Bible as a loving and healing divine energy and said Shri Mataji was the redeemer sent by Christ. Priya explored Shri Mataji's meditation with savage skepticism and buckets of fear. Part memoir, part investigative story, Follow the Breeze, Let Miracles Flow, is an astonishing journey of healing and miracles that has universal resonance.

The debut short story collection from acclaimed U. K. writer Priya Sharma, "All the Fabulous Beasts," collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre. 'Priya Sharma explores liminality and otherness with skill and verve in her engaging and haunting stories.'-Alison Moore, Author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'The Lighthouse'"Priya Sharma has been writing and publishing short stories for over a decade, and I'm delighted that she's finally receiving the recognition her work deserves. She's extremely skillful in creating characters with whom we can empathize-no matter their deeds-leading her readers down roads of beauty and horror. I especially love her award-winning novelette 'Fabulous Beasts, ' a perfect piece of storytelling." -Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year seriesPriya Sharma is a doctor from the UK who also writes short fiction. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo one and Tor.com, among others. She's been anthologised in various annual Best of anthologies by editors like Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Jonathan Strahan and Johnny Mains. Her story "Fabulous Beasts" was on the Shirley Jackson Award shortlist and won a British Fantasy Award.

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Alt Hist Issue 5 features stories covering a variety of historical periods from the 1800s to post-War USA. This issue includes five new original works of fiction including stories about Al Capone and Italian Futurism, the aftermath of the American Civil War, the real Frankenstein, the Bridge that consumes the souls of men, and the latest instalment in a series of stories about a successful Nazi invasion of Britain. Alt Hist is the magazine of Historical Fiction and Alternate History, published twice a year by Alt Hist Press. Stories featured in Alt Hist Issue 5: After Mary by Priya Sharma AD 1929 by Douglas Texter The Stiff Heart by Meredith Miller The Bridge by Micah Hyatt Battalion 202: Rotten Parchment Bonds by Jonathan Doering Priya Sharma's "After Mary" is set in the mid-1800s and is the story a scientist with dreams of greatness who lives alone in his country house with only his assistant, Isobel, and servant Myles. Then his friend comes to the house and leaves a copy of Frankenstein, which changes everything. "AD 1929" by Douglas W. Texter is a story describing a meeting of artistic guile and criminal muscle. This is a tale of what might have happened if the Italian Futurist F. T. Marinetti had come to America and gone to work for Al Capone. Meredith Miller is the author of "The Stiff Heart" which draws its title from a poem by Emily Dickinson. Meredith's piece is a story about life under the surface, in New England in the 1870s where secrets and fears and desires sometimes refuse to behave properly. Not everyone joins in the self-satisfied complacency of this prosperous post-Civil War community. Micah Hyatt is the author of "The Bridge". Throughout history men have risked their lives to achieve great feats of engineering: The pyramids of Giza. The Empire State building. The Panama canal. But those who build The Bridge risk their very souls. "Rotten Parchment Bonds", the latest story in the Battalion 202 series by Jonathan Doering, features Harold Storey, a quiet man praying for a quiet life after the horror of the First World War trenches. But his prayers are cruelly crushed by the German Invasion of Britain in 1941. As a police officer he is forced to co-operate with Nazi officials and is thrown into moral turmoil by the accommodations that start to be made. But perhaps there is one good man amongst the enemy ranks?