The ekphrastic stories in this collection contemplate what it means to be sick. Navigating the experience of disease, aging, pain, and medical trauma, these characters contend with the impact of the turmoil of the body. They frankly explore the different ways that illness can ravage the body and soul, and how it impacts families, friendships, romance, sexuality, spirituality, and our future. Rejecting the censorious perspectives of toxic positivity, romanticization, and stolid acceptance, these stories face the reality of everyday suffering and how it changes us.
Lorette C. Luzajic has wrestled with breast cancer, a botched leg surgery, autoimmune disease, chronic pain disorders, and medical oppression. Known for her work as editor of The Ekphrastic Review, and for writing and teaching ekphrasis and flash fiction, she turns her attention here through ekphrastic small fictions (and one longer story) to the question of how we live inside imperfect bodies. |
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Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer, artist, and editor in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University, but writes poetry and flash fiction, usually inspired by visual art. She is the founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review, the flagship journal of ekphrasis. Her words have been published in hundreds of literary journals, a couple dozen anthologies, and a handful of books including Pretty Time Machine and Winter in June. She has been shortlisted, longlisted, and awarded, as well as nominated for Best American Food Writing, four times each for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, as well as several times for Best Microfictions and Best Small Fictions. Lorette is also an award winning mixed media artist with collectors in over 30 countries so far.
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