To Dangle Death
Friday, October 13th: the perfect day to launch our annual literary horror issue. Something wonderful happens–a switch, a one eighty, a backwards drive on a roundabout–when I give myself over to the season of horror. To throw a party in spite of the darkness. To claim and reclaim. To lay it out: Here is the pain. Here is the hard stuff–ha ha! To dangle death from my fingertips: “Would you look at this?” And when I do, there is a release.
In Volume 4, Issue 4 of Club Plum, we open our October doors for you to tiptoe inside. Maybe the door is entry to a vulnerable memory. Maybe the door gives way to the horrors of a childhood home. Perhaps we will enter a shed and witness our father’s obsession, or maybe we come face-to-face with our obsession in the neighborhood bar. Half-dead birds flap around our grandmother, and hogs haunt us in the road. Sometimes, though, the haunting is soft and necessary, and we strain to listen lest we miss it as we desperately conjure our beloved ghosts. Other times, we need to let our ghosts float away like ships that we don’t recognize simply so we can go on.
Please join us inside this October.
Yours in words and art,
Thea
# Club Plum Literary Journal #ClubPlum #LiteraryHorror Club Plum Literary Journal #Club Plum Literary Journal #ClubPlum #LiteraryHorror Club Plum Literary Journal
Thea Swanson View All →
Thea Swanson is a feminist atheist who holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Oregon. She is the Founding Editor of Club Plum Literary Journal, and her poetry, fiction, essays and reviews are published in places such as World Literature Today, Mid-American Review and Northwest Review.