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Synopsis
A dead thing of feathers and fur on the side of the road wearing the face of a loved one you’ve buried. Glimpses into cults that worship suicide or pray to ghosts. Black rivers leading a lost soul into the woods to reclaim what was taken from them. The boundaries between fiction, lyric essay, and confessional poetry collapsing into a vortex of all-consuming depression. And, finally, a house shifting its walls and hallways to herd you toward a door you never wanted to open… but inevitably must.
A unique, disturbing new voice of literary weird fiction, Christopher Ropes’ debut collection, Singing the Song of My Unmaking, refuses to turn away from our most intimate fears and excruciating losses, exploring what dreams and nightmares may fill the void where a person once was.
About the Author
Christopher Ropes is disabled for mental health reasons and has been for the majority of their adult life. This informs every aspect of their work. Their stories confront the realities of people in extreme mental health crises confronting the unknown and terrifying. They’ve been published in Vastarien and Nightscript, had a story in the anthology Nox Pareidolia, and published a poetry chapbook and a chapbook for the story “Complicity,” along with other credits. They live along a beach in Southern New Jersey with very understanding and supportive loved ones and a small menagerie of cats and a dog.
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