Puppets of the Digital Age
We associate puppets with theater or street performances: the stock characters of the Italian Commedia dell’arte, the Greek shadow play of Karagiozis, the traditional British Punch and Judy seaside shows….
Memento Mori, Memento Vivere
If you’ve spent enough time on social media, you might have eventually discovered the weirder, goth-er, more macabre corners of each app, and the communities that mushroom there in the…
Life, Death, & Anime
Anime is a storytelling medium with an established history of exploring death through the liminal and the metaphysical, particularly in terms of alternate dimensions, original afterlife landscapes, and delightfully disturbing…
POV: You Are a Dead Greek
1 – Antigone POV: You are the orphaned princess of Thebes and your brother is dead, but your uncle the new King refuses to let you perform your brother’s burial…
How We Make Our Children: Alternate Creation Myths in Speculative Settings
“The Arbor tells us stories of a time before, when all the dead were kept in orchards that rolled endlessly, and had always been there, and people tended to them…
Shapeshift With Me: A Review of Suzan Palumbo’s Skin Thief
Suzan Palumbo’s debut story collection Skin Thief is a dark exploration of metamorphosis, cultural fusion, and identities at turns warring and coexisting inside the same vessel. A common thread woven through stories is the subcutaneous need to shed one’s skin—one’s duty or forcefully assigned reality—and don another.