Breath & Shadow
Spring 2021 - Vol. 18, Issue 2
New On The Bookshelf
written by
Ability Maine
The Ballad of Hangman’s Elm: A Fairy Tale
By Susan M. Silver
“This book should be required reading for anyone wondering and hoping if this too shall pass.”
A legendary park-dwelling tree becomes an accidental witness to once-in-a-generation calamity within catastrophe – unrest in the midst of a pandemic. This is an unforgettable story of growth through crisis. A luminous tale that reads like a prose poem, a must-read for all ages.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NF3BTHC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
The Dream Journals
by Sarah Cavar
In eighteen subconscious segments The Dream Journals blends genre and form to stage scenes once hidden behind eyelids. The result is a micro-memoir of both speculation and recollection of the surreal and the all-too-embodied.
"Cavar creates a speculative whole from many shards. I can inhabit my own internal//dreams with this chapbook a prism of refracted selves in technicolor.”
– Jesse Rice-Evans, author of THE UNINHABITABLE (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)
https://www.giallolit.com/microchaps-2021/p/the-dream-journals-by-sarah-cavar
A Hole Walked In
by Sarah Cavar
A Hole Walked In is a thrilling piece of surrealist-gothic-body-horror short fiction featuring a protagonist whose face just won’t stop bleeding. Following writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Helen Oyeyemi A Hole Walked In traverses the feminist Weird and leaves a red trail in its wake.
"A blood rite of a bildungsroman. A Hole Walked In asks questions that can only be answered by the mirror. The sly-and-wry body horror envelopes the reader in a way that feels more real than fantastical and yet it is after something that is just out of reach. Cavar deftly writes a fable that is impossible to take even a breath away from and they do it drenched in the bloody irony of skill.”
— L Scully author of LIKE US (ELJ Editions).