“Mask of the New Death” by Bexar Blum is a short story inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”. It works through a clever format of color and time to tell a story about disease.
Read it here: https://t.co/hB1OWwB933
She notes: Second in a haunting series, Jetfire Daffodil juxtaposes the bright spots of the ��Jetfire’ Narcissus with nearly apocalyptic glimpses of a catastrophe one cannot glance away from. (2/2)
“strange blue floods
and reverence for all fawns
swallowed,
spoonful by spoonful.”
— from “waltz in e minor” by T. L. Sullivan.
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#AnatoliosRecs: @avolitorial suggests "IN THIS BODY, ON THIS DAY" by Monericka Semeran.
Our EIC notes: "The structure, language, and deliberate repetition combine to give this poem an urgent feeling, alternating between desperation and tenderness."
https://t.co/HwXSr4Xkxv
#AnatoliosRecs: @tuyetanliu suggests "Bell Theory" by @EmilyYoon.
She describes is as: Sorrowful, so rightfully angry, so tragic, so fragile that it threatens to hurt you and itself in one breaking.(1/2)
https://t.co/TTcGiBRBum
They quote:
"Sometimes I forget you
used to be a different person than
the one I sleep next to each night.
Your neck and back ache from digging
ditches. Won’t you dig a ditch
for your past and bury it.
Won’t you let me bury it. "
(2/2)
She notes: Nominally art critique, "Art Objects" is in truth an observation in ten parts, coming from a place of sincere — and thus illusionless — love for the craft in all its shapes. (2/2)
Kicking off our biweekly series of #AnatoliosRecs, our editor,
@aemperatrix, suggests "Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery" by Jeanette Winterson (@Wintersonworld). (1/2)
https://t.co/Tqx1ChHqYc
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