Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Here Be Ghosts
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Here Be Ghosts

on hand-me-downs, spores, and mourning
Allyson Shaw
Apr 06, 2023
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AI generated ghost spores from a Haekel prompt. Ghostly white and dark blue organic shapes with mock script around them
AI generated ghost spores from a Haekel prompt.

…I donned the simple shirts and jackets of a country minister turned social worker. My hair was trimmed short…this was my first, if unwitting, drag, and in it I hid from the puberty that ambushed me.

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Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Essays, poetry and other fragments about witchcraft and folklore. I speak in liminals from the island margins as a disabled, rural woman.
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