fwriction

Jack Allen, fiction editor of The Void Magazine, has written something truly unique, and fwriction : review is excited to publish it as the new fiction release!

From Allen, regarding his story, as a bit of an introduction to the work:

“La Dame du Lac” is a fragment from an unfinished and forgotten collection of scenes. Each section had a number of unique limitations: multilingualism, intertextual references, line length, and the invocation of nursery rhymes or folklore. “La Dame du Lac” borrows from the myth of The Lady of the Lake, as well as a rendition of the myth of Orpheus. These myths construct a non-violent and perhaps innocent image of the femme fatale, allowing her to exist on the page unthreateningly yet all the more damaging. To put it in the words of the Black from Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited–-she is the shadow of the axe hanging over every joy, obscured and yet imminent. This indistinctness is what separates the lady of the lake from other archetypal sirens, modernizing her by giving her both self-awareness and tact.

Enjoy this short story, spread some love, and please submit!