I have finally finished editing three pieces all of which I’d considered finished as long as 10. I am submitting them to a call I will post below, so I took another look at them first. Uggh. I don’t know if it is the voice that changes or the eye, but I do know that one of them required a lot of changes and I wonder (again) if it the Multiple Sclerosis, the cognitive issues that sometimes arise, rearing its ugliness again.
But at any rate, I am letting them go and submitting at least two of them after I post this. The second one, Acute based off a painting by Hughie Lee-Smith, was so oddly surreal; I almost gave up on it. I scribbled on the draft, “Surrealism is nonsense and clarity conversing.” And realized it was like I stumbled into the middle of babble and had to reorient myself with a broken compass? Ha! But I believe I made it work.
I can’t believe February is peeping around the corner! I am not ready. I am going to try to do my Black History month posts. I may just reshare a lot of them since they were audio posts, as well as through in some oddly specific but still relevant posts just based on my personal tastes. Movies, etc.
The Rotten Contest
Marrow is excited to announce Rotten: a literary contest seeking your darkest, fabulist tales of love gone off. We want stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art that explore the decay, monstrosity, and unpalatable truths beneath romance. Send us your dark, feminist pieces where passion has soured, affection has turned rancid, and devotion has become grotesque. Join us in exploring the darker sides of love.
