myth & folklore

Issue 4 ✷ September 2020

Vasilisa

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“Vasilisa” is the featured artwork for our September issue of 2020, “Myth & Folklore.”

Seasons Unending

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Times change, and even the gods must change with them. Especially the gods. Or: Hades and Persephone through the years.

Where Memory Meets the Waves — Part 2

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“Wishing for something to be real and actually encountering it in the flesh was something no one could be entirely prepared for. The creature before her was, at once, the most beautiful and the most terrible thing Maise had ever seen.”

Vigil

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It is late at night at St. Bridget’s Hospital, and three women are awaiting the birth of a baby.

The Hunt

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All she knew then, in that oppressive darkness, was that she was a creature who hungered. Who desired. And whatever she desired, she would have.

Spes Ultima Moritur—Hope Dies Last

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Mortals often wondered which had come first: death or time?

Death knew they asked the wrong question entirely, for why did it matter? What was time to a mortal other than the yardstick by which they measured the encroachment of their inevitable demise? Death and time had come into existence in the same moment of creation, though they would not leave this plane together: the last thing Death would reap was time.

So for an existence unmeasurable by any mortal means, Death walked in the universe alone. Stars were born and flared and died, continents churned and consumed each other, life bloomed and swam and flew—and then it began to walk on two legs—and then it began to pray.

And suddenly, Death wasn’t alone any longer.

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