southern gothic Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/southern-gothic/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:16:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 southern gothic Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/southern-gothic/ 32 32 135387410 Flutter: southern gothic fever dream (Book Review) https://elephantsnever.com/flutter-southern-gothic-fever-dream-book-review/ https://elephantsnever.com/flutter-southern-gothic-fever-dream-book-review/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:11:26 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2582 Warm up your February with Flutter: southern gothic fever dream by Kristin Garth, illustrated by Mathew Yates, now available from TwistiT Press. In Flutter, Garth’s annotated sonnets tell the story of Sylvia Dandridge, bed-ridden with scarlet fever in 1883 Pensacola. As the fever progresses, Sylvia becomes drawn into the otherworldly side of her parents’ estate, where dreams and reality fuse. Read More

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