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Category: Poetry & Prose

“I saw a tree…”

Posted October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Poetry & Prose, Posts by Topic:

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The Masque of the Black Death

Posted March 16, 2020 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Digital Media & Videogames, Literature & Narrative, Poetry & Prose, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Social Interaction & Networks

The Plague laughs behind its mask, because it can wear any.

“Wherefore was I given life?”

Posted May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Poetry & Prose, Psychology, Religion

Because it’s Söder­gran time again.

On Larissa Glasser’s F4

Posted February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Narrative, Poetry & Prose, Posts by Topic:, War, Violence & Terrorism

Larissa Glasser’s F4 is filthy, bizarre, ultra-viol­ent, and hyper-(trans-)sexual, and I’m sure it’s meant to be all those things.

The Pseudo-Hysterical Female Man

Posted November 18, 2018November 19, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Narrative, Poetry & Prose, Politics

The Female Man wants very badly to be a hys­ter­ical novel, but by design, and not spon­tan­eously, it flails about in its con­fu­sion, hurt­ing not just itself but the reader as well.

1001 books

Posted August 23, 2018September 1, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Poetry & Prose, Psychology

Like my own Shahrazad, I’ve told myself 1,001 stor­ies to keep myself dis­trac­ted from (doing) bad things.

On Borges’ Collected Fictions

Posted June 21, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Analogy, Death, Dreams, Literature & Narrative, Magic, Memory, Mystery, Mythology, Poetry & Prose, Religion, Space & Spatiality

The ugly, The bad, The good, The list™

Shadow of the Future

Posted May 13, 2018July 14, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Poetry & Prose, Religion, Visual Art

My trans­la­tion: Edith Söder­gran - “Framtidens skugga” (1920)

On The Narrow Land

Posted April 30, 2018August 19, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Poetry & Prose, Religion, Space & Spatiality

Although I already had a pretty pos­it­ive opin­ion of Vance based on ‘Lyo­n­esse’, ‘The Nar­row Land’ sur­prised me with a couple of really good tales.

On The Eye of the Heron

Posted April 30, 2018August 19, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Poetry & Prose, Politics, Posts by Medium:, War, Violence & Terrorism

Ursula K. LeGuin’s ‘The Eye of the Heron’ is an enga­ging novella about oppres­sion and res­ist­ance in a new world.

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