Some people want stories to be like legal documents. They listen to folktales as if they’re descriptions of historical events, the nightly news of mythological events. They expect magical spells to look like recipes in a Betty Crocker Cookbook, with a little Latin wording thrown in to make it sound appropriately ancient. They want toContinue reading “Twixt the Cup and the Lip”
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Why I Paint the Ozark Howler This Way
It would be consoling to mentally reconfigure its great mess of a body into something sensible. In making the Ozark Howler appear sensible, however, I would be painting my own desperate urge to live in a world that has not been ripped apart and stitched back together a thousand times.
Monsters of Grigor Godwin 