Ariel Marken Jack

I have spent a great deal of time in the past year alternating between existing as a guest in other people’s homes and playing host to guests in my own…

One of the things that endlessly fascinate me—speaking as a person who was brought up femme in the rural United States of America—is how intuitive it feels for me to draw connections between women, fruit, and guilt. I wasn’t raised in a Christian household, but even so it was impossible for me to grow up free from the knowledge of Eve and original sin.

In Eating Endings #3, Ariel Marken Jack looks at the story Amma’s Kitchen, originally published at The Deadlands.

Eating Endings #2 focuses on “The Honey Witch,” by Kathryn McMahon, a short story that was given the audio treatment by PseudoPod.

The sweet things in life, these stories imply—wondrous delicacies that tempt us toward thoughtless consumption—are sources of wonder much less often than woe.