Fiction. California Interest. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. CEREMONIALS is a twelve-part lyric novella inspired by Florence + the Machine's 2011 album of the same name. It's the story of two girls, Amelia and Corisande, who fall in love at a boarding school. Corisande dies suddenly on the eve of graduation, but Amelia cannot shake her ghost. A narrative about obsession, the Minotaur, and the veil between life and death, CEREMONIALS is a poem in prose, a keening in words, and a song etched in ink. "CEREMONIALS is a dreamy punch of a book, a haunting, poetic aria. These pages ache with the far reach of love, hum with the slow blossoming of self, crackle with the power of myth. Katharine Coldiron has created something very special here, as fierce and tender as girls, as ghosts."?Gayle Brandeis "Between poetry and prose, between word and music, Katharine Coldiron's hybrid tour de force CEREMONIALS is a loveletter between art and the body. This book makes my whole body ring like a tuning fork inside its lyric narratives. A specular devotional between artists, words, music and bodies."?Lidia Yuknavitch "CEREMONIALS starts of with 'Concentrate.' So, we concentrate. We find ourselves immediately in a familiar dialogue that grounds us. The characters are within us, both familiar and mysterious, caught in mist above a lake, caught in a mist somewhere within our bodies. Beyond the words, which are transcendent, the illustrations are gorgeous interpretations and explorations of bodies and the characters within the work itself?with bodies torn and cut apart, like our lives. Corisande is ethereal, that magical elusive part of ourselves, fragile, all-consuming, a kind of lively death. Is she actually there, is she gone, was she ever real to begin with?like Nadja from Andre Breton?s iconic novel. Coldiron paints a portrait of love and loss so beautiful, it needs to be consumed."?Joanna C. Valente "CEREMONIALS pulled me in deeper with every word. Coldiron writes in intricate, intimate prose. CEREMONIALS pulled me in deeper with every word."?Katelyn Wong "CEREMONIALS is a book about loss, but more importantly, it is a book about love, and the music in Coldiron's language never lets us forget this, as it wraps us in its arms, lets us hear the rhythms of its many hearts, and we 'spin like a top on the grass softened by [its] mist.' We are lucky to have the gift of such a story in our lives."?duncan b. barlow

Ceremonials

Coldiron, Katharine

Literature & Fiction

Kernpunkt Press

Spirits and fairies and borrowed bodies. Bird oracles, volcano gods and young people who can revive the dead. A thousand year friendship, a shape shifting boy, and an obsession with Maria Callas. As we wait for the light of Spring to return, as we live each day looking for hope &amp; beauty amidst the things that frighten us, stories are (and always have been, and always will be) our most steadfast companions. We hope that you enjoy these nine potent reminders, to mark the start of our ninth year.

Luna Station Quarterly Issue 033

Morris, Heather

Schofield, Holly

Martine, Arkady

Quarterly, Luna Station

Cunningham, Meghan

Hurlburt, Diana

Weaver, Kat

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Lundgren, Emily

Short Stories & Anthologies

Luna Station Press

Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Castle Bridge Media

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