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Haunted by grief
Grief lingers as much as love, so why is one feared and the other revered? Why does one attract suspicion, or even a clinical diagnosis (if it lingers for too long), while the other permits all manner of expression, in poetry and song penned as freely as judgement is imposed on prolonged grief.
Eris knows why. She has seen how this false dichotomy can be wielded as a weapon or a shield against people who are misunderstood. She has been the witch-hunted scapegoat and cast out of a community that never wanted her in the first place. But she won’t let that distract her from the truth about what happened to her daughter. So you will see that Tangled Knot, the first of a trilogy, is a tale of grief but also vengeance. Written by queer author BB Clifford, Tangled Knot is available now. |
Haunted by greed
We make up tales of ghosts and ghouls with and without heads, and hooks for hands and fangs for teeth, as if these fantastical beasts were really a threat to us. All the while, a greater horror story is revealing itself: It tells us about our own kith and kin, and the greed that unites us. It is our greed that has led us to a toxic torture chamber of glossy green, manicured lawns that we insisted upon, even though it meant that we had to accept the cancerous cells that now distort us from within.
Dylan thought they could escape the toxicity by fleeing the suburbs of New Jersey, but the contamination follows them across the Atlantic to London. Just when Dylan thinks that they will succumb to the poison, a greater danger reveals itself; the kind of danger that will require a whole rainbow of warriors to defeat it. Rainbow Warrior is the sequel to Tangled Knot, and both novels are available now. |
Haunted by misogyny
“No one sees me,” Ania once said, “because I exist only in the form that they created for me. An object, an obstacle, a memory or a longing, it doesn’t matter how many different versions they create of me, it still amounts to an existence in someone else’s story.”
Hasn’t it always been that way? The voice was familiar and timeless. If we exist in any other form, they’ll surely cut us down, fold us up, or store us somewhere until they need us for their own purposes. Ania didn’t want to see it. She couldn’t believe that the world was haunted by such misogyny. But even if she blinded herself to it, that malevolent truth would find her eventually. Malevolent Fairy, the third part of the Tangled Knot trilogy, is available now. |
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