Literary Devices For Coping
Reading taste-tuned novellas authored by algorithms.
Auto-logging encounters with beauty with a smartglasses app.
Installing a thermostat to maintain a constant psychological warmth at work.
Engineering a crush with a hormone-delivery system to preempt problematic attractions.
Donating a childhood friendship to someone who didn’t have any through a memory transplant.
In Literary Devices for Coping, the technological and fantastical idiosyncratically shape key moments in close relationships. As characters in this collection grapple with issues of memory, jealousy and sanity, their efforts are assisted and complicated by gadgetry and artifice—often in ways that raise questions about what it means to be human.
Soramimi Hanarejima is an informaticist who explores the structure of ideas and the nature of thought. Fascinated by the role fiction can play in examining and developing metacognition, Soramimi writes stories to engage in literary experiments about thinking with the aspiration of finding unique narrative insights.
The Root of Everything & Lightning: Two Novellas
A moving pair of historical tales, as philosophically astute as they are dramatically gripping. —Kirkus Reviews
In this pair of novellas, The Root of Everything & Lightning, award-winning author Scott Alexander Hess provides a richly textured portrait of the shifting landscape of the 20th century American Dream.
The Root of Everything is a multi-generational saga tracking fathers and sons from Germany’s Black Forest to Missouri as they experience tragedy, triumph, forbidden love, and hard-earned reckonings.
In Lightning, a young man in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1918 is driven by his deep love for horses and his emerging feelings for another man. Offered a chance to move to New York City, he finds his true destiny.
Shot through with layers of grief, passion, dangerous landscapes, and old-world mysticism, these are journeys into love, loss, and twists of fate that define us. Hess tells stories as deep as the Missouri River and as wide-ranging as the Wild American West.
Santa Muetre
Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or “Holy Death.” Considered to be the female personification of death, she is associated with protection and safe passage to the afterlife. She is also the patron saint of people who live on the fringes of society and often face violence and death. In recent years her constituency has expanded to include the LGBT community and people who are marginalized or whose jobs put them at significant risk of death such as military and police personnel. Santa Muerte is hailed as their potent and powerful protector, capable of delivering them from harm and even granting miracles.
Santa Muerte is a complete ritual guide to working with this famous—and infamous!—Mexican folk saint. It takes us beyond the sensational headlines to reveal the truth about why Santa Muerte is so beloved by so many. Author Tracey Rollin presents simple, straightforward methods for working with Holy Death that may be used alone or easily incorporated into your own magical practice.
Pure Magic Oracle
Inspired by The Big Book of Practical Spells by Judika Illes, this stunning kit, Pure Magic Oracle, captures the essence of the sacred elements in an array of visual delight. It will guide you on a magical journey to reconnect with the healing power of nature and spirit.
The cards in this kit will help you to:
* Reconnect to the divinity of Mother Earth, your ancestors, and your spirit allies
* Rekindle your passion
* Recover your personal magic and psychic abilities
* Remember your purpose
This is indeed the essential tool for your whole life: 36 cards to guide you through the darkness and the light. It will open you to a remembrance of infinite consciousness.
Andres Engracia is also the talented creator of Divine Doors and Saints & Mystics oracle cards decks.