Science abutting the spiritual. Memory as our most vital form of agency. The stories we tell ourselves against the night. The ghost as corporeal ego—removed enough from ourselves to examine fully under the dimming lights of capitalism. Odes to Kafka, Sylvia Plath, and Jung. 

Written exclusively in second-person to better situate the reader in the midst of its meat, this illustrated collection explores areas of possibility that exist between the margins of the purely clinical and personal. Magic is the creation left behind after elemental destruction, and has historically been an avenue in which disability can be productively discussed. These flash, vignettes, and micro essays grapple with themes of mental health and magic through first-hand accounts, research in neuroscience, nods to Greek myth, examination of cinema,  90’s culture, & retellings of the classic ghost story. I attempt to write around themes of childhood, abuse, bipolar disorder, and the supernatural to approach a conclusion that remains—at best—hallucinatory.

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