Tag: august 2024
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Orion’s Belt Interview: Marie Croke (Fiction- August 2024)
Sara Omer: “The Impermanent Surface of Lake Scintillate,” is a glittering cautionary tale touching on the irresistibility of social media and the cultlike reverence it inspires. It’s Black Mirror but make it poetic, dreamy prose. What were your inspirations in exploring this metaphor? Marie Croke: Poetic, dreamy prose is what I strive for! Often, for…
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Orion’s Belt Cover Art August 2024 Issue
Some geometric, ethereal cover art for our next issue, courtesy of the Editor in Chief. Get access
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rookery by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Orion’s Belt Poetry – August 2024)
they came in droves in cyclones and rainfall, in windstorms and pelting hail each icy rock— heavenfall— a tiny drone delicate wings filigree work, they lay inert like cicada broods— emerging mating and death but it seemed backwards their inertness came to life so it went— death mating emergence they arrived lifeless but somehow buffeted…
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The Importance of Adventure Fiction by Joshua Fagan (Orion’s Belt Essay – August 2024)
Until the twentieth century, “romance” as a genre did not necessarily refer to a love story. It meant something much closer to The Lord of the Rings than Romeo and Juliet. The term survives, albeit in semi-obscurity, in the phrase “chivalric romance,” which suggests the general connotations of the idea. Romance meant travel and wonder, the interaction…
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The Impermanent Surface of Lake Scintillate by Marie Croke (Orion’s Belt Fiction – August 2024)
In the center of our neighborhood, inside the green where the mowers keep the grass trim and the signs say NO BOATS ALLOWED, is our lake. It’s a small lake; eight acres, give or take, with crawdad mounds and snails dotting its weathered edge. The surface sparkles at dawn. At dusk. Under moonlight. Under lamplight.…