About

M. Marrie Noir writes at the seam of science and the uncanny—literary speculative noir that swaps jump scares for slow, surgical dread. Her stories fixate on identity, control, and transformation: a botanist measuring love against vacuum in A Flower Glows on Mars; a self-improvement cult selling alternate selves in What Tangled Paths We Sew; and a mortician hunting her twin’s killer in Symmetry. Expect lyrical sentences, precise psychology, and worlds where procedures become rituals and bodies keep the score. When she’s not dissecting a scene, she’s cataloging motifs—threads, mirrors, autopsies, red warning lights—and asking what it costs to become the person we claim to be. Elegant dread. Intimate stakes. No easy exits.