Tag: may 2024
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Orion’s Belt May 2024 Cover
Enjoy the ethereal, mystical cover of this month’s issue of Orion’s Belt. Get access
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With the City on Her Shoulders by Carol Scheina (Orion’s Belt Fiction June 2024)
Before Mavis left home, she wrapped herself in the city. When the light hit her jacket just right, it flickered with swirls of boldly colored graffiti. As she rushed, her footsteps screeched like a rattling subway. On her shoulders, miniature, ghostly skyscrapers lit up like constellations each night. Mavis couldn’t fully leave her city behind,…
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Orion’s Belt Fiction Interview May 2024 (Carol Scheina)
Sara Omer: In “With the City on Her Shoulders,” the home city the protagonist grew up in comes to life on her, expressed in skyscraper epaulets and a graffiti-decorated jacket. The magic is so enchanting and cozy, bringing into starker contrast complex themes about place, belonging, and stereotyping. What inspired this idea of people carrying…