Maddison Rossi

From the haunting imagination of Maddison Rossi comes Welcome to the Godmachine, a visceral debut of vignettes that plunge into the raw edges of existence. Across these stories, Rossi unveils a world of decay, transcendence, and feral hunger, where the boundaries of flesh, spirit, and machine blur into something both grotesque and divine. With a voice as sharp as a predator's tooth and tender as a wound, Rossi explores the human-and inhuman-condition through violence, longing, and the eerie beauty of transformation.
In "What Comes Next, " a corpse at a body farm narrates her own decomposition. "Put Your Hands Up and Praise" unfurls in the sweaty haze of Ashford First Baptist, where a pastor's son spikes communion. In the titular "Welcome to the Godmachine: Debut, " a Shepherd unleashes Uppercut, a reanimated gladiator, into a neon arena. "Lore" drags readers to Mount Tahoma, where a pioneer bargains his survival with an ancient creature.
And in "Ex-Stasis, " a hospital bed serves just deserts. Rendered in Rossi's electrifying prose, lush with moments of brutal clarity, these stories interrogate the cost of survival, the ecstasy of surrender, and the monstrous potential thrumming beneath human skin. Welcome to the Godmachine.