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Magical Realism and How to Make the Impossible Feel Possible
Award-winning author Cynthia Pelayo breaks down magical realism and how to make the impossible feel possible for readers and characters.
The post Magical Realism and How to Make the Impossible Feel Possible appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/magical-realism-and-how-to-make-the-impossible-feel-possible
#WriteBetterFiction #WritingTechniques #magicalrealism #WeirdFiction #Wonder
Book Review: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Narrator: Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk, Rutina Wesley
Publication Info: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017
Summary/Review:
Sing, Unburied, Sing is a family drama set in contemporary Mississippi. Central to the story is a road trip in Leonie Stone and her children Jojo and Kayla travel to pick up Michael, her boyfriend and the children’s father. The story is narrated by three characters:
The book touches on many themes including racial prejudice (especially within the carceral state), generational trauma, and African spirituality and the supernatural.
Recommended books:
Rating: ****
#Audiobooks #BookReviews #Books #Fiction #MagicalRealism #Mississippi
"Cedric Moon knows one thing for sure, and right now that’s enough. The world he is capable of recognizing has died..."
Night Fall, Moon Rise by @JackPrestonKing https://medium.com/the-mad-river/night-fall-moon-rise-4da636e584c7/share/juliakantic?source=social.tw
#halloween #magicalrealism #fiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
#quickread
https://www.europesays.com/ie/721773/ Through Fictional Self-Portraits, Tang Shuo Visualizes an Ancestral Archive — Colossal #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Design #Éire #Entertainment #family #IE #Ireland #MagicalRealism #painting #portraits #SelfPortrait #TangShuo
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1238369/ Through Fictional Self-Portraits, Tang Shuo Visualizes an Ancestral Archive — Colossal #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Family #MagicalRealism #painting #portraits #SelfPortrait #TangShuo #UK #UnitedKingdom
Through Fictional Self-Portraits, Tang Shuo Visualizes an Ancestral Archive — Colossal
As a child in Dashishan Village in southern China, Tang Shuo was afraid of snakes. He and several…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Family #MagicalRealism #Painting #portraits #self-portrait #TangShuo #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/792938/
Bulgakov's trick: place the miraculous inside a reality so ordinary we believe it. I talked about this illusion, the Master who chose survival over heroism, and why Woland charms us more in print than on screen.
https://iq-media.ru/life/preobrazheniya-mikhaila-bulgakova
#Bulgakov #MasterAndMargarita #RussianLiterature #magicalrealism #literarystudies #SlavicStudies #humanities #socialsciences
BEAR ROOTS: Ursula learns her friends are human-bear shapeshifters as hunting season approaches. Laws are broken, spells are attempted. (Bisexual MC) https://www.elizabethamberwrites.com/bear-roots/ #books #MagicalRealism #NewAdult
Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence — Colossal
Like the Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, the first time I found myself in front of a painting by…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #arthistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #MagicalRealism #Painting #RemediosVaro #surreal #UK #UnitedKingdom #video
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/782306/
Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence — Colossal
Like the Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, the first time I found myself in front of a painting by…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #arthistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #MagicalRealism #painting #RemediosVaro #surreal #video
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/860295/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1221811/ Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence — Colossal #ArtHistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #MagicalRealism #painting #RemediosVaro #surreal #UK #UnitedKingdom #Video
BEAR ROOTS: Ursula learns her friends are human-bear shapeshifters as hunting season approaches. Laws are broken, spells are attempted. (Bisexual MC) https://www.elizabethamberwrites.com/bear-roots/ #books #MagicalRealism #NewAdult
Welcome to Kokoro Cat Clinic (We'll Prescribe You a Cat #3) by Syou Ishida
Release Date September 22, 2026
#Translation #MagicalRealism #Cats
https://www.risingshadow.net/book/91257-welcome-to-kokoro-cat-clinic
Eden at Dawn by Karim Kattan
Release Date September 22, 2026
#Adult #Translation #MagicalRealism
📚 Etna by: Paul Yoon
Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home—to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/etna
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #animalsfiction #magicalrealism
“Up Late, Late At Night: Episode Two, Act Three” – a new script by Thomas Typewriter
-----------<.thom.ophi>----------- Up Late, Late At Night an abstract nonsense concerning treasure versus trash in modern film Episode 002 Act III By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Typewriter-Operahouse (c) 2026 Jason Arcand & Suzanne Arcand -----------<:type.house:>----------- FADE IN INT. HAIR AIR AVIATION COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES AIRPLANE, DAYTIME CS OF A GLASS ON A FOLD DOWN TRAY. An empty glass, similar to the same glass that Laser Editor was drinking out of in Act II, sits on a […]
Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism
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Das 5. Kapitel ist online und kann auf
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Candle and Shade
He laughs about the things
only he understands,
whether or not to heed
the hail and banshee winds.
He’s unhinged by gladness,
that’s why he’s so happy
dancing faster than light
heating the heart of night.
Terrified of loving
daylight more than the dark
blowing out the candle
before he counts the shades.
The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller and I'm still thinking about it. Three witches, five generations, one bloodline set on rebalancing the world. Fantasy on the surface, painfully real underneath. #bookstagram #bookreview #bookblogger #WomenOfWildHill #KirstenMiller #witchyreads #magicalrealism
What Does It Mean to Awaken in a Broken World?
The Knight Shamans are more than mystics in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Their journey begins with a question: what happens when people awaken to themselves, to the spirit world, and to the responsibilities of rebuilding society?
In The Apocrypha of the Knight Shamans, awakening is never a single moment. It is a process—a difficult movement from inherited assumptions toward a deeper understanding of self, community, and the unseen forces shaping both.
The world of the series has already been shattered by earthquakes, political conflict, social collapse, and forgotten dangers. Yet the books are not only about surviving catastrophe. They ask what survivors do next. When roads, institutions, and familiar rules disappear, people must decide which parts of the old world deserve to be restored and which should be left behind.
The inner awakening
A Knight Shaman must first awaken the spirit society has buried beneath programming, fear, and cultural expectations. That awakening is personal, but it is never merely private. Rodney’s ability to see the spirits of the dead, Peter’s emerging shamanic talent, and Justin Earl Knight’s struggles with his own demons all reveal different paths toward self-knowledge.
These characters do not receive simple answers. Their gifts come with obligations. To see more clearly is also to carry more responsibility. A shaman must confront the Other Worlds, interpret what is found there, and determine how spiritual knowledge can guide living people without becoming another form of control.
Demons to banish. Fallen Angels unmasked. Pantheons falling where others are rising. Enemies become lovers and Lovers become enemies.
This three-book omnibus is in hardcover and costs less than the three separate paperback versions.
#thatthingIJustRead #fantasy #dystopianreads #lgbtq #queerromance #gaia #earthmagic #shamanism #PostApocalypticFiction #DarkFantasy #MagicalRealism
Today’s Stage Play Festival Deadline: MAGICAL REALISM Stage Play Contest
Submit via #Submittable: wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/33138...
FULL FEEDBACK on your stage play. Get a best scene of your #stageplay performed at the writing festival and made into a video.
#magicalrealism
WILDsound Writing Festival - M...
Today’s Stage Play Festival Deadline: MAGICAL REALISM Stage Play Contest
Submit via #Submittable: wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/33138...
FULL FEEDBACK on your stage play. Get a best scene of your #stageplay performed at the writing festival and made into a video.
#magicalrealism
WILDsound Writing Festival - M...
Two standalones where the magic hides in plain sight.
Hiraeth — a longing for a home Ellis didn't know she had, waiting in Beddgelert.
What a Latte Books — a book that shouldn't exist, appearing and disappearing in Laura's shop.
Both waiting for the reader who arrives at the right moment. 🐉📖
Hiraeth — Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/Ec5xk
What a Latte Books — Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/H3Yak
#Contemporary #MagicalRealism #Romance #Wales #BookLove #Bookish #Reading
“The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Seven – An Intermission” by Thomas Typewriter
-----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 07 an intermission By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the bottom of the screen scrolls up the following text: "07-07". It moves upwards, pausing a moment in the center of the frame, then continues upward, exiting the frame at the top edge. Immediately following that text's exit, up scrolls "an intermission" from the bottom of […]
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September 2026 ❤️ Die Legende der Mistelzweigküsse!
Manchmal braucht es eine magische Legende und viele Mistelzweigküsse, um die wahre Liebe zu finden!
🔥 Ab 18.8. veröffentliche ich die ersten Kapitel auf Wattpad @ SophieDarling ❤️
#coverreveal #romancebookrecs #christmas #magicalrealism #lovestory
Tiệm đổi ký ức.
Có những thứ người ta tưởng đã quên, hóa ra chỉ là đang cất giữ hộ một người khác. Ở cuối con hẻm cụt số 47 đường Lãnh Binh Thăng, nơi ánh nắng Sài Gòn không bao giờ rọi thẳng xuống được vì bị che khuất bởi ba tầng dây điện chằng chịt và những tấm bạt cũ kỹ căng ngang như mạng nhện khổng lồ, có một căn tiệm nhỏ mà hầu hết những người đi ngang qua đều không nhìn […]
Survival of the Witchiest (A Nightshade Detective Agency Cozy Mystery #2) by Amanda M. Lee
Release Date August 4, 2026
#Fantasy #Mystery #CozyMystery #MagicalRealism
https://www.risingshadow.net/book/82232-survival-of-the-witchiest
“The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Six” by Thomas Typewriter – a new script
-----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 06 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the center bottom of the frame scrolls up the following text: “07-06”. It scrolls up to the center of the frame, pauses, then continues scrolling. It exits the frame in the top center. Across the dark screen drifts the sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING. From the bottom of the […]
Book Review: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Author: Andrea Lawlor
Title: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Narrator: Dani Martineck
Publication Info: Books On Tape, 2019
Summary/Review:
This is a challenging book to summarize or review since it is an experimental work. The main character is a 23-year-old named Paul in the early 1990s who is a shapeshifter with the ability to change gender expression at will. While at times Paul goes by the name Polly, the third-person narrator always uses the name Paul and he/him pronouns, so I will follow suit. When we first meet Paul, he’s a student in Iowa City taking advantage of the small but lively LGBTQ scene. Along Paul’s journeys he visits S&M clubs in Chicago, the Michigan Womyn’s Festival, an extended stay with a lesbian lover in Provincetown during the offseason, and ultimately the Castro in San Francisco. There’s not so much of a plot here as an episodic sequence on a tour of the United States’ LGBTQ hotspots. The book is especially true to the alternative culture as Generation X came of age and how it overlaps with the liberation of ideas around sexuality and gender expression at that time. In this book, Paul also has a lot of sex. Like I said, I’m not quite sure what to make of this novel but it is an interesting and unique work.
Recommended books:
Rating: ****
#Audiobooks #BookReviews #Books #Fiction #LGBTQ #MagicalRealism #Shapeshifting
#introduction Greetings. Rejoining this instance with a new account some years after being locked out of my first Mastodon one, circa 2018. Introducing myself by way of a bunch of hashtags of interest, as one does.
My profile image is a 1940 painting by Dorothea Tanning, "Deirdre" (of the Sorrows).
#surrealism #magicalrealism #painting #womenartists #feminism #kindness #socialism #wildlife #nature #newengland #forest #music #film #hermitcraft #knitting #cats #museums #crafts #whimsy #AuDHD
“Up Late, Late At Night: Episode Two, Act Two” – a new script by Thomas Typewriter
-----------<.thom.ophi>----------- Up Late, Late At Night an abstract on treasure versus trash in modern film Episode 002 Act II By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Typewriter-Operahouse (c) 2026 Jason Arcand & Suzanne Arcand-----------<:type.house:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK FADE IN EXT. TRUCC NUTZ HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP, DAYTIME LS OF THE HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP The highway stands empty. From stage-left enters a semi-truck covered in logos for KON-SATOSHI ELECTRONICS. It drives down the […]
The Bone Sculptor: read for free with Kindle Unlimited.
#magicalrealism #WWII #BookLovers #booksonmastodon #magicalrealism #kindleunlimited #ebook
