NEW ART! Our December gallery is a rapturous plunge into a wildly colorful world of phantasmagorical animal characters and visual vignettes. MOONWRECKED: A GALLERY OF MEMORY — Artworks by Camellia Paul.
https://fabulistmagazine.com/moonwrecked-a-gallery-of-memory/
NEW STORY: Set in the Central African Republic, this savage satire uses the folkloric “rule of three” to tell a frankly brutal allegory of exploitation and innocence. HOW 'BOUT A COSTLY JOKE (FEATURING DIAMONDS), by Abhishek Sengupta @AbhishekSWrites
https://fabulistmagazine.com/how-bout-a-costly-joke-featuring-diamonds/
"I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead. How did I know that I was dead? As it seemed to me, I recovered consciousness in an instant after the blow and heard the Sniffer saying, in a quavering voice: 'He's dead! My god, I've killed him!'"
- Robertson Davies, "Murther & Walking Spirits"
Never fall in love on Wednesday.
#fantasy #ebooks #ebook #audiobook #booktrailer #gay #magicrealism
https://youtu.be/v88G6SgHCtM?si=gjZSiOBs6T6e_m40
Purchase links: https://books2read.com/u/baaq12
I'm delighted to welcome Dirk Strasser and his new book, Conquist, to the blog #HistoricalFantasy #MagicRealism #Conquistadors #Incas #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub @thecoffeepotbookclub @DirkStrasser @cathiedunn
#reading The lost bookshop by Evie Woods #bookstodon #books #fiction #MagicRealism
#CurrentlyWatching "Isabel Allende: House of Spirits", a 1988 documentary about the Chilean author. Avaialble online via my local public library (and maybe yours too!). cc; @bookstodon #Literature #Chile #SouthAmerica #LatinAmerica #IsabelAllende #MagicRealism #Books #PublicLibraries #AADL
I just finished reading The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope and really enjoyed it! ^_^
"Never make a deal with shadows at night, especially ones that know your name.”
Washington D. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits—a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that’s left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. So when a powerful spirit offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, Clara seizes the chance, no questions asked. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District.
Clara can’t pull off this daring heist alone. She’ll need the help of an unlikely team, from a handsome jazz musician able to hypnotize with a melody to an aging actor who can change his face, to pull off the impossible. But as they race along DC’s legendary Black Broadway, conflict in the spirit world begins to leak into the human one—an insidious mystery is unfolding, one that could cost Clara her life and change the fate of an entire city.
The Monsters We Defy is a timely and dazzling historical fantasy that weaves together African American folk magic, history, and romance."
Book review, Salman Rushdie's Victory City:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f4534d99-45a8-44e0-a937-81ae9e5afff2
The cutest little paper crab thinks you’ll want to listen to the audiobook of BE THE SEA, narrated by Sam Stark! What are you waiting for? You can order it right now at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/bethesea
#bethesea #seacreatureoftheday #crab #origamicrab #origamianimals #origami #oceanfriends #audiobook #sciencefantasy #magicrealism #hardcover #kickstarter #kickstarterprojectwelove
#indiepublishing #hopepunk
"Zaferree Making Weather Forecasts with Voices" by Reggie Kwok is a quietly wonderful fable about finding your place in the world.
I especially love this story, with its gentleness, and focus on care and companionship, as a counter to the many harmful, inaccurate, and stigmatising representations of schizophrenia in SFF and horror.
Another feature-length e-book presentation from SRF Heavy Industries Document Division!
#Fiction #MosaicNovel #StoryCollection #WeirdFiction #LiteraryFiction #MagicRealism w/ #SF & #Horror elements 110,000+ words/490+ pages #EPUB #PDF #MOBI #AZW3
#WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon
$5 at https://l.xal.li/KOFI-TOT !
I wrote this 377th edition of #Paranatellonta, with the lovely #bluebells photo by Fie, in memory of my grandmother, who loved gardening and passed into the endless forest last Friday.
#photography #flashfiction #magicrealism #bluebellwoods
https://paranatellonta.tumblr.com/post/749301747776962560/a-strange-walk-the-flowers-had-entered-the-house
De dreigende wolken beheersen de verlaten straten. Alleen Napoleon wijst de weg | Menacing clouds dominate the deserted streets. Only Napoleon shows the way.
Karel Willink in @MuseumMORE #Ruurlo
#neoclassism #Magicrealism #surrealism #realism #artoftheday #museumarchive #oil #color #colour #painting
THE CONQUISTADORES’ ARRIVAL, REIMAGINED in a playfully serious tale that darts as kaleidoscopically as a hummingbird between culture and culture and between the empires of past and present. Powerfully visual, sardonically witty. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/you-dreamed-of-empires-lvaro-enrigue/1143331343?ean=9780593544792
AT THE INTERSECTION OF MAGIC AND THE EVERYDAY, this fluid and mythical tale traces the mourning journey of a Diné (Navajo) man across the colonized continent. Lovely and poetic prose rich with imagery. A MINUS
Brian Catling’s The Vorrh trilogy is brilliant.
Had saved up the third volume for 2024…now engrossed.
Sadly, Catling passed away in 2022.
#ShareSaturday "Best Hair Day"
I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
~ Marge Piercy
#TheNewBoy: An entrancingly gorgeous look at the effects of colonisation and spiritual erasure. Warwick Thornton knocks it out of the park once again.
Full review at Mahan's Media: https://betwixtstarproductions.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-new-boy-2023-movie-review.html #film #movies #filmreview #moviereview #cinema #cinemastodon #fantasy #drama #magicrealism #warwickthornton #colonisation #aboriginal #australia #cateblanchett #aswanreid #wayneblair #deborahmailman #RedRibbonReviewers
