Striving After Ink

Alena Casey

July 2021

  • Patricia A. McKillip and The Changeling Sea

    Today I finished reading Patricia A. McKillip’s The Changeling Sea for the third time. This is a beautiful fantasy novella by one of the finest fantasy authors living today. I first discovered Patricia McKillip one summer while working at the library, through her book Winter Rose. I don’t remember many details from the story; what… Continue reading

  • She Spun by Me in Swirling Skirts

    Read my first published poem, “She Spun by Me in Swirling Skirts,” at Sparks of Calliope! photograph by David Hofmann on Unsplash Continue reading

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  • A Consideration of Lava

    written at 6:30am from an airbnb on a trip to “Big Island” Hawaii I’m standing on our porch looking out over a frozen sea of lava. Like an ocean, it curves into waves and valleys, eddies and ripples, pools and surges. You can almost see the foam in the textures of the black rock. Then… Continue reading

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