by Gladys Ochoa Julie Maggi’s A Fine Withering explores the grief, the challenges and the recovery that come with a hysterectomy. While researching the procedure, she concludes that although a common surgery, hysterectomies are not discussed publicly. The lack of personal stories available lead the author to write about her experience. The story begins with the diagnosis of a large myoma that requires a hysterectomy to remove the myoma. The author, although recently coming to terms with not having children, finds herself conflicted on the news. A part of her had foreseen this with the way her body had… Read More
Cyclopedia Exotica
By Sarah Tillery Cyclopedia Exotica is a graphic novel for an adult audience that covers the various trials, tribulations, and discriminations that a minority goes through in the everyday acts of living. It does so through the metaphor of the fictional people, the cyclopes, who–in Cyclopedia Exotica’s world–have lived in tandem with their two-eye brethren, but not always easily. A typical cyclops (the singular like person, while cyclopes is the plural, like people) is a humanoid vaguely related to the creatures of Greek Mythology, who possess one eye and one pectoral, as opposed to the two-eyed humans two eyes and… Read More
Cheer Up! Love & Pompoms
awaiting review