La Kanto de Tamar
I composed this Esperanto song for Tamar, the cyborg mermaid who met King Alfred, to echo through the corridors of her spaceship as she journeys through time and space. It tells of her past, her…
Category: creative writing
poetry
Mermaids in Labour: Fit for Fantasy
A two-part poem inspired by my reading of Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck”.
(neuro)psychology creative writing fanfic
Writing fanfiction to cope with mental health issues
Recently, I found this personal narrative that depicts a 15-year-old French girl’s experience with depression and how writing fanfiction has helped her cope with her mental health struggles. Republished with the author’s permission.
autism creative writing
Ideal Home
As long as I remember, I have been fantasizing about an Ideal Home to realize my Ideal-I. Currently, I am working on practical applications of technology to improve the lives of autistic people (for a…
creative writing
NATURAL SPLENDOUR
Last night I had that dream again. I heard a voice of glass and iron, a voice oftobacco and boiling stew, the sound of barns set ablaze. A voice that soundedlike someone I knew, someone…
poetry
Still ‘Diving into the Wreck’
Once in a while, you come across a piece of writing that deeply resonates with what lives inside you, in words you did not have yet. That happened to me, on a sleepless night. I…
creative writing
The Cyborg Mermaid meets King Alfred
Last year, I jokingly wrote this (alter) ego-inserting fanfic, placing my PhD topic in the story world of Netflix’ The Last Kingdom. It was published on different fora, but lacked a stable place online. So,…