Throwback Thursday | An ON FIRE Excerpt: “The Dancing Lilly” by Anthony S. Buoni

The neon lights lit the cobblestones underneath the Flat Five’s awning, casting a surreal blue haze over the club’s entrance. Muted jazz poured onto the streets as I passed a dirty dachshund panhandling for change or leftovers. The snake at the door, Nick, stopped me on my way in and motioned at the duffel bag…

Magical Realism by Zoe Harrington

Magical Realism, a term first coined by the art historian Franz Roh in 1925, describes a style of representation in art and literature which attempts “to portray the strange, the uncanny, the eerie, and the dreamlike – but not the fantastic – aspects of everyday reality.” It pervades the works of the political dissident author, Ma…