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It came from Molly Etta (again)
Molly Etta’s story “The Illuminator Leaves” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 16 June 2017.
This story has a couple of different points of origin:
The first one goes quite a ways back. I was a sophomore in college, getting interested in medieval texts and manuscript culture, and I thought I’d like to write something about a mute illuminator, who could only communicate through images. I…
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The Illuminator Leaves - Molly Etta
New story! The Illuminator Leaves - Molly Etta
When the Fata first found me, I was very small, and I had lost my voice. Nevertheless, she took me in, and proved both kind and cruel thereafter.
I used to gesture pleas, begging for the return of my voice. But she never seemed to understand why I would want such a burdensome thing back. She gave me colors — gold leaf, ultramarine blue, vermillion — so that I could draw and paint instead of…
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Another question for Molly Etta
Another question for Molly Etta
Q: What inspires you?
A:I’m an academic and I spend a lot of time reading very old and remarkable texts full of strange images and language. So, ample inspiration there. And echoes of these texts have a tendency to pop up in unexpected places. I’m constantly amazed by the ways in which storytelling practices have changed over the centuries, and how the same basic narrative or idea can come to…
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More about Molly Etta
Molly Etta is a graduate student in Comparative Literature, currently studying feverishly for her PhD exams while writing short fiction on the side. Her work is featured in Metaphorosis: Best of 2016 and has appeared recently in Literary Orphans as well.
Molly Etta’s story “The Illuminator Leaves” will be published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 16 June 2017. Subscribe to our e-mail updatesso you’ll…
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June 2017
Metaphorosis TOC - June 2017 - stories: @MichelleAnnKing, Christopher Cervelloni, Molly Etta, @FilipWiltgren, @textualism, art: @KaosNest
Table of Contents
Light Winds With a Chance of Velociraptors – Michelle Ann King
Trucks in Reverse – Christopher Cervelloni
The Illuminator Leaves – Molly Etta
One Divided by Eternity – Filip Wiltgren
The Abjection Engine – Y. X. Acs
Cover art by Kaos Nest.
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Solomon and the Dragon’s Tongue - Molly Etta
New story! Solomon and the Dragon’s Tongue - Molly Etta
Before he went by Solomon, the stranger’s name was Shlomo. He seemed at first unremarkable, apart from being new, and in palpable need of a wife. Yutke’s mother began to snoop as soon as she noticed that he did not wear the tallis which marks a married man.
“How do you know that?” asked Yutke.
“I saw, at shul.”
“And what were you doing, that you could see whether he was wearing a tallis or not?…
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A question for Molly Etta
Q: When do you decide a story is finished?
A: I’ll admit that I’m drawn to writing that is (or seems) fragmentary, so I might be in a bad position to identify when a story is finished.
But that’s not a real answer, so here’s another attempt: I know I’m approaching the finish of a story when certain recurring motifs begin to feel less like flourishes, and more like they are essential to the…
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About Molly Etta
Molly Etta is a graduate student in Comparative Literature, living in the San Francisco Bay area. When she isn’t scribbling about dragons made of ink, she tends to be buried in research on allegorical reinterpretations of Ovid in Old French.
Molly Etta’s story “Solomon and the Dragon’s Tongue” will be published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 20 May 2016. Subscribe to our e-mail updatesso you’ll know…
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