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I Take That Back

By
  • Yoav Ben Yosef
| January 22, 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

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
| December 16, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

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
| November 13, 2020 Filed Under:
Books, Featured, 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
| October 14, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured

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
| October 5, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, 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
| October 5, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, 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
| August 8, 2020 Filed Under:
Blog

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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    • Chthonia – Worlds of the Dark Feminine
    • Writing Off the Deep End
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    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
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    • About
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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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Unless otherwise noted, all rights are reserved by the individual authors. Other website content is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)