Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Listen to our audio presentation of “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon. Narrated by Lisa Shininger.
Listen to our audio presentation of “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon. Narrated by Windy Bowlsby.
My mother had daughters year after year, and one by one, my father devoured us.
There was a witch who lived up in the mountains, and I never heard but that she was a good one.
Grandma Harken lived on the edge of town, in a house with its back to the desert.
There’s a phenomenon well known to artists where the people who paint the weirdest, darkest, most demon-riddled work frequently tend to be absolutely lovely, mild-mannered
This is the place of the carnivores, the pool ringed with sundews and the fat funnels of the pitcher plants.
The moon came up and the sun went down. The moonbeams went shattering down to the ground and the jackalope wives took off their skins and danced.
They danced like young deer pawing the ground, they danced like devils let out of hell for the evening. They swung their hips and pranced and drank their fill of cactus–fruit wine.
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