Samuel Brandt woke up with his thoughts written all over his body. His brother woke up with his head missing. His sister woke up to find that her skin would crack open unless she stayed in water. All of the other children in the secluded Iowa town of Oak Knoll woke up having undergone strange transformations. Now, the...
"My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking." Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn't spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's boyfriends, she escapes into an alternate reality where true natures show and people are...
What is 'magical realism'? Magical Realism in literature is easily misunderstood & misapplied to genres that are similar, but not the same. Let's learn about this incredible writing strategy! It's really very distinct & easier to spot once you know more about it, yet still difficult to classify. We'll go over history...