Fiction

Feb 16, 202212 min read

"The Other Me"-- Clearing the Smoke Blurring Faced-Up Mirrors: See and Thus, Be Seen

I've been obsessed with doppelgängers, alter egos, liminal experiences, otherness. Giga Agladze's The Other Me embodies it all

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Nov 1, 20204 min read

MAP - The Making of Liam Whelan's Irish Lullaby. A Cartography of a Heritage.

Liam remembered the very first time that his Máthair Chríona sang the lullaby for him when he was a child, and an old ache squeezed his gut.

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Nov 1, 20201 min read

MAP - The Making of Rain with Sun - Brook's Poetic Ecosystems.

Liam stared at Brook—their shape was blurred by his teary eyes. Amber light filtered through the treetops of Sequoias and Redwoods.

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Oct 27, 202016 min read

Author Bill Clegg—Storytelling Sprinkled in Fairy Dust

A holistic look into author Bill Clegg’s literary works as interconnected ecosystems evincing his solid signature and sophisticated style.

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Jan 26, 202017 min read

Sky-Diving Into Seas of Ink: Full Immersion in the Reading Experience

Vertical Reading it's a full immersion into a book's pages, where I swim beside the people in a world of liquid ink within an author's pages

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Aug 29, 20195 min read

Translating the Ineffable from the Liminalities of Otherness

Translation occurs in the immediacy of my bilingual mind. I'm a poet translating poetry, as poetry is written in its cathartic becoming.

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Aug 28, 20193 min read

“Ekphrasis of Cassandra’s Vow of Love.”

I had thought that uncertainty and despair were the gradients of my life before I’d known about this flower growing inside me.

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Aug 28, 20195 min read

“Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”

She wore pink stilettos. Her steps towards the stage were sensual, following the cry of mating, the howling of Beck’s guitar.

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Cecilia Martinez-Gil