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Film Review: Decision to Leave (2022)

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 31 May 2023 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews Korean cinema, crime, drama, film, secrets, thriller

A thrilling yet understated crime drama focused on the relationship between a police detective and a woman whose husband has died in a suspicious climbing accident, distinguished by the complexity of its characters.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #8: Wisdom

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 23 May 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, culture, cynicism, spiritual warfare, wisdom

The danger of cynicism is getting what you believe in:  Nothing.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #7: Spirit

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 16 May 2023 Microdoses Poetry New Age, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Teachers, ancestors, aphorisms, culture

Strange, the power of the past—how our spiritual ancestors become our future masters.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #6: Reading/Writing

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 9 May 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, culture, poetry, reading, tribal, writing

Never mind poetry or prose, good literature is the art of friction.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #5: Technology

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 2 May 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, curation, mindfulness, technology

In the age of information overload, our guides are curators.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #4: Creative Work

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 25 Apr 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, creativity, culture, inspiration, writing

Anything freed from the marble is an angel.  Never cease chiseling…

A Modern Fable: “I Never Liked You Anyway,” by Jordan Kurella

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 23 Apr 2023 Cultural Consumption Books, Reviews Greek Mythology, book-review, love, queer fiction, relationships

Jordan Kurella’s novella is a modern fable that bounces back and forth between a modern day university, a music department, and the nether world of Hades, the Greek version of Hell.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #3: Love/Loss

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 18 Apr 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, culture, hauntology, love

A working definition of Love: we started talking and never stopped…

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #2: Balance

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 11 Apr 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, culture

Birds don’t use their wings only to fly but, also, for balance―just like us.

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #1: Art

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 4 Apr 2023 Microdoses Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, art, crisis, nietzsche

Art for art’s sake is a dead end; art for heart’s sake is the way out.

Departures (Film, 2008)

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 25 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Reviews Japanese film, burial practices, cello, death, film, grief

A quietly provocative story about a cellist who leaves the musical profession and finds a job preparing dead bodies for burial.

Life Cycle of a Shadow

By
  • Daniel Ausema
| 20 Feb 2023 Features Fiction, Story dark, fantasy, horror, liminal, weird

Properly speaking, shadows are not those places where the light is blocked. In the earliest reconstructed languages, those places have no names, though the proto-word for shadow does exist. Shadows were the beings that lived in those places of blocked light. Through the corruption of time, they have lent their name to their native homes, been subsumed by them, been forgotten.

Being Touched by the Beyond

By
  • George Ivanov Vasilev
| 18 Feb 2022 Features Essays death, dreams, intuition, tribute

From my very childhood, I’ve always been curious, interested, in a quest to find out what actually life is. What, in fact, is death? Where do we humans come from, and where do we go after death? Or, why we humans are on earth at all, and then die?

Author Interview with Isobel Granby

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Isobel Granby
| 30 Dec 2021 Features Fiction, Interviews, Story Fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, inspiration, place, world-building

“The Second” was written for a speculative fiction writing workshop and very last-minute in its original form. I did the plotting and world-building on the fly, and basically the original idea was “what if the protagonist were trying to save their friend from a duel?”

Artist Interview with Deniz Ozan-George

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Deniz Ozan-George
| 25 Aug 2021 Features Audio, Interviews, Visual Art abstract, experimental, gallery

Metapsychosis editor Mary Thaler interviewed Deniz Ozan-George, an artist based in Boston, Massachussetts. Though she’s recently completed one portrait, Deniz considers herself first and foremost an abstract painter, lyrical, and expressionist.

Author Interview with Susan Evans

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 15 Jun 2021 Features Interviews, Poetry poetry

Susan Evans’s poem “Lucy” appeared on Metapsychosis website in Autumn 2020. During the following winter, we exchanged emails in which Susan told me about her creative process, her sources of inspiration, and what her hopes for the coming year.

Artist Interview with Marjorie Kaye

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 18 May 2021 Features Interviews Visual Art, cooperatives, fine art, nature

An artist is actually creating a world rather than just a stationary object. The artist is sailing through universal winds and transmitting truth. It really depends on the artist as to how this truth manifests and is revealed.

I Take That Back

By
  • Yoav Ben Yosef
| 22 Jan 2021 Features Story anxiety, choice

It starts like this, the intercom buzzes. Nick, the reluctant pet cat, is faking obliviousness, turning around, padding over to the kitchen for a snack. His tail, way up in the air, offers me a clear view of his hypoallergenic pink behind—shorthand for open scorn. “Guess I’m getting it then,” I say, pushing back with my own attitude.

The Second

By
  • Isobel Granby
| 16 Dec 2020 Features Story friendship, leadership, loyalty, sf

Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Books, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Synaptic Tides

By
  • Marjorie Kaye
| 14 Oct 2020 Features Visual Art Organic, abstract, color, paintings

Forms point upward or sideways from a centrifugal base, hunting and seeking. Tides of observation and transmission approach and recede, leaving visual patterns in their wake. Ancient symbols make their way across pathways of energy, co-existing with forms of nature; earth, sky and all types of elemental forms are born of essential vibration.

Lucy the Nun With the Green Socks

By
  • Susan Evans
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“Lucy the nun with the green socks / saw me hugging the oak tree / that summer I / hibernated in Spartanburg.”

Anatolian Dreams

By
  • Diana Thoresen
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“St Barbara, a poor white gloved icy ingénue, / Has long been a dusty piece of Black Forest wood // That grew out of the ashes of Sibylline books”

Introduction to the Editors: Mary Thaler

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 8 Aug 2020 Signal Boost Community about, introductions, submissions

Who am I and what do I write? I spent the early part of my career as a scientist studying oceanography, and some of that science attitude—the attention to detail, the feelings of wonder and humility—have infused my writing practice. Plus I have a nerdy …

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