Going Within

My personal essay, Going Within, is featured in the StokerCon 2022 Souvenir Book published by Burial Day Books

  • Publication date: May 2022
  • Editor: Cynthia Pelayo, Gerardo Pelayo
  • Cover Art: Kealan Patrick Burke

ABOUT GOING WITHIN

An essay about finding the seed of my creative spirit and a community to help nurture it.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

The souvenir book for StokerCon 2022 is a collection of essays by horror authors to celebrate the convention and all things horror

AN EXCERPT


We all make homes for ourselves in the world. Places to hide from trouble. Where we build ourselves anew. Places that inspire us to delve deep, to hone our imaginations so we can face the trials and tribulations that challenge us. When the pandemic hit and severed our ties to that sanctuary we’d created together—that haven of collective belonging, where even in the gathering darkness, we found kinship that carried us through shadow—it was a loss that made us all feel vulnerable; myself included.

© MARY RAJOTTE

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