Marilyn Hope

Aug 8, 2024 | beneath-ceaseless-skies.com | Marilyn Hope |Jonathan Olfert |Natalia Theodoridou

Narrated by Cat Rambo. Rang and Sunder crafted slaws of vinegar and greens and sea salt, eating from the same spoon, and out-of-season wood ear mushrooms pillowed out on elder tree trunks like clouds the day Rang stripped Sunder of a glove and kissed his knuckles. Every time they touched, the world sparked with life and pungency and an unnamable, inorganic scent, as if the catalysts of their alchemy had yet to be invented.

Nov 16, 2023 | beneath-ceaseless-skies.com | Marilyn Hope |James Morrow |Michael Rivera |Natalia Theodoridou

His Majesty plights his troth to the boy by the failing light of the waxing Luster Moon, an auspicious night for waterfowl, prayer, and paladins. Wrong, all of it. Child-groom Softwind Sunder is hellebore and winter sun, plantcraft and rage. When he spits on the holy grounds of Prophis, small tufts of rabbit-foot clover emerge from the dead soil. The King treads the silky flowerheads flat with impotent fury. Sunder has produced only invasive flora since his abduction.