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PART ONE: LIVING New Year’s celebrations crashed through the streets of Whitcry in a din of masks and swirling petticoats. Pottery smashed against cobbles, women’s shouts echoed from garrets, men...

Decomposition

PART ONE: LIVING New Year’s celebrations crashed through the streets of Whitcry in a din of masks and swirling petticoats. Pottery smashed against cobbles, women’s shouts echoed from garrets, men...

Rachel Swirsky is a Nebula award-winning author of short stories, novelettes, and novellas spanning speculative fiction to literary fiction. She attended the Iowa Writers Workshop at The University of Iowa,...

Interview with Rachel Swirsky

Rachel Swirsky is a Nebula award-winning author of short stories, novelettes, and novellas spanning speculative fiction to literary fiction. She attended the Iowa Writers Workshop at The University of Iowa,...

For the author poetry is deeply personal, for the reader it is highly subjective. What do you hope readers experience or gain from your poetry? Well, poetry isn't always deeply...

Interview with Rachel Swirsky author of “Black, Red, White”

For the author poetry is deeply personal, for the reader it is highly subjective. What do you hope readers experience or gain from your poetry? Well, poetry isn't always deeply...

On her wedding dayshe is red and black and white:cheeks flushed with desire,dark hair spilling over bridal gown. She sits before her mirror,toasting the best man.He smiles, tips scarlet tabletsinto...

Black, Red, White

On her wedding dayshe is red and black and white:cheeks flushed with desire,dark hair spilling over bridal gown. She sits before her mirror,toasting the best man.He smiles, tips scarlet tabletsinto...

Black, Red, White

On her wedding dayshe is red and black and white:cheeks flushed with desire,dark hair spilling over bridal gown. She sits before her mirror,toasting the best man.He smiles, tips scarlet tabletsinto...