Category: Fiction
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Mothing 101: Mothy Lit List
Mothing 101: Moths in Literature Welcome (or welcome back) to Mothing 101, my series of shallow dives into the rabbit hole of moth-related topics for the moth-curious. In this installment, I’m talking about moths in literature. In previous installments, I covered folklore and moth symbolism, so this is more like a semi-annotated reading list. I…
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Shiroki Sand Dunes Story Inspiration
My short story, “Shiroki Sand Dunes” is a modern-day magical realism story inspired by an ukiyo-e print made in the Edo period. This woodblock print, New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, was created by one of the masters of Ukiyo-e, Hiroshige Utagawa, around 1857. The Met Museum website has a great write-up…