At the core of every fairytale is a rule. And when that rule gets broken, the story begins. "Don't step off the path," they say. "Don't get close to the wolf." And yet we do, time and time again. Behind the vivid and playful ornamentation, fairytales are rife with darkness and desire.
Together, Lynne and Sonia discuss the ethics at play and what's illuminated when fairytales are reimagined. They read and explore Lynne's two poems The Wolf Of Your Passions and Beauty, Sleeping.
Transcript
Read Beauty, Sleeping in Issue 2.2 of Augur Magazine
Read The Wolf of Your Passions in Issue 5.2 of Augur Magazine
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Host and Producer:
Sonia Urlando
Sound Production:
Jehan Vakharia
Special Thanks To:
Kerry C. Byrne
Lorna Antoniazzi
Martine Nguyen
Lois L.K. Chan
Cindy Ly
Eugénie Szwalek
Madeleine Vigneron
Helena Ramsaroop
Lily H
Artwork by:
Moccha
https://www.instagram.com/mochii.mocha
https://twitter.com/Mocchadraws
Music:

Original music - Jehan Vakharia

There's something about a cataclysmic event that brings people together. Premee is a virtuoso when it comes to writing compelling characters—who often find themselves experiencing an end to their world, and a new beginning.
In her two stories Some Solace For Thy Woes (Augur) and The Youngest Son Misses His Boat To The Crusades (Tales & Feathers), she draws us into close relationships between just a few characters experiencing an end. Together, Premee and Sonia explore intimacy in apocalypse as it relates to these stories. And what carries on after a world ends.

Episode Transcript

Read Some Solace For Thy Woes (Augur 1.3)

Read The Youngest Son Misses His Boat to the Crusades (T&F)

Follow Premee Mohamed

https://premeemohamed.com/

https://www.instagram.com/premeesaurus/

https://bsky.app/profile/premeemohamed.com

Support Premee on Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/premee

Follow the Augur Literary Society:

⁠https://augursociety.org/⁠

⁠https://www.instagram.com/augursociety/⁠

https://bsky.app/profile/augursociety.bsky.social

Host and Producer:

Sonia Urlando

Sound Production:

Jehan Vakharia

Special Thanks To:

Kerry C. Byrne

Lorna Antoniazzi

Martine Nguyen

Lois L.K. Chan

Cindy Ly

Eugénie Szwalek

Madeleine Vigneron

Helena Ramsaroop

Lily H

Artwork by:

Moccha

https://www.instagram.com/mochii.mocha

https://twitter.com/Mocchadraws

Music:

Distill, accessed through Blue Dot Records.

secondearth, accessed through Free Music Archive

Through settings and symbols mundane and mythological, Matteo Cerilli presents two poems, Star Bright and Bathroom Chatter.

In this fifth episode of murmurstations, Sonia and Matteo discuss these poems with an eye on themes of mythologies of masculinity as well as growth, innocence, loss, discovery, (be)longing.

They discuss Matteo's activism roots and how they surface in his stories, the characters and causes he's interested in writing about, and the genres (like horror) that best allow him to do this.

Transcript

Read: Bathroom Chatter (Augur 5.2)

Read Star Bright (Augur 6.2)

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https://matteolcerilli.substack.com/

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https://x.com/augursociety⁠⁠⁠⁠

https://bsky.app/profile/augursociety.bsky.social

Host and Producer: Sonia Urlando

Special Thanks To:

Kerry C. Byrne

Lorna Antoniazzi

Martine Nguyen

Lois L.K. Chan

Cindy Ly

Eugénie Szwalek

Madeleine Vigneron

Helena Ramsaroop

Lily H

Artwork by:

Moccha ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mochii.mocha

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Mocchadraws ⁠⁠⁠

Music: In The Sun, by CrowanderAccessed by: https://freemusicarchive.org/