Happy Halloween!!!
Makar's first official video from our latest album, Fancy Hercules. Video was written, acted and directed by Makar. Zombies just want to LIVE and BRAINS!!!
Official album release is November 19, 2021! Enjoy! :-)
Fancy Hercules arriving November 19, 2021!!
The wait is over, Fancy Hercules will be out and about November 19, 2021.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooo!
Presale links should be up later this week. But here is some slowmo karate tomfoolery in the meantime
WERU - Fancy Hercules in the top 3 adds
Our new album Fancy Hercules was in the top 3 adds for WERU-FM 89.9 the week of October 18th, 2021 through October 24th, 2021!
Not too shabby, not too shabby for a self-released album.
Andrea's flash fiction, Morforwyn, published in The Wild Hunt on July 28, 2020
Andrea’s flash fiction piece, Morforwyn, was published in The Wild Hunt - Is it safe? Issue # 2 on July 28, 2020.
Look at the fantastic art below. Have to ask the editor who the visual artist is.
The Wild Hunt posted on twitter the following sentiment which sums up Andrea’s reason for writing this story.
Background on this story
Andrea: Mermaids are not usually thought of as dangerous. Nor is it in the universal folklore that humankind did terrible things to them but of course we did. (That’s if they existed).
I was especially inspired by this cryptozoology I came across about Welsh mermaids. (I am a quarter Welsh and would love someday to visit Wales but who knows now. Some mermaids started out as giants, they diminished as everything seems to do when encountering certain elements of humanity.
PIMCOMEDY / NYC SET JUNE ZOOM GIG
Back on Saturday, June 6th, we played America Where Are You? on Zoom for a benefit to stop child trafficking sponsored by PimComedy NYC Set.
Full video link on our instagram story.
Warning — We still don’t understand Zoom.
MAKAR’S TINY DESK CONTEST 2020 ENTRY FOR NPR
A little late to post this since we’re busy working away on our third album, Fancy Hercules.
But here is for your viewing pleasure – MAKAR®’s entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest.
Andrea’s flash fiction piece, Detached, published in Molotov Cocktail on January 31, 2020
Andrea’s piece Detached was published in Molotov Cocktail on January 31, 2020 in Volume 10, Issue 12. What a way to start the new year!
Cover of Molotov’s Cocktail’s Issue 10.12
Andrea’s writing process on Detached:
I actually wrote this story and submitted it to Molotov’s Flash Monster 2019 contest but did not make it into their Top 10. But I did receive a "Close But No Cigar" shout-out on the site.
I never would have written this story without that contest. I always wanted to write about the penanggalan but Molotov gave me the push.
I discovered the penanggalan through D&D. Its illustration was always one of more grotesque ones. But it also haunted me. And then I found the Fiend Folio at my childhood home.
None of the origin stories I read completely satisfied me. I fixated on the fact that a penanggalan will remain unnaturally beautiful throughout her life.
I’ve always wondered what made a woman choose to become a penanggalan (and if it was a choice). I examined the physical price of beauty and the extremes some go to attain that irreproachable veneer.
Hope you enjoy!
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Andrea’s poem – Rape Kits – was published in Timeless Tales Magazine’s Pandora Box Issue 8/15/19
Andrea is honored that her poem Rape Kits was published in the 3rd edition of Pandora’s Box in Timeless Tales Magazine.
What Andrea has to say about this poem --
This poem was inspired by the HBO documentary - I am evidence and the appalling reality of the rape kit backlog remaining untested in the hundreds of thousands. I was horrified by the idea of these boxes in a warehouse where birds were actually making nests of the evidence, of these women’s bodies and pain, evidence that could put the rapists behind bars. And who better to open the boxes than Pandora?
Pandora opening the box is frequently seen as cataclysmic but in this case, she’s a warrior, doing what is necessary for justice. All the emotions from the collective violations released giving the victims hope.
A word about the moths – in some versions of the myth, the “bad” things released are described as moths and I thought what if these moths were avenging goddesses and in my internet sleuthing came across Theodore D. Sargent’s invaluable Working Paper of Attributes - Goddesses – Moths. I have always thought that moths were underrated.
About Timeless Tales Magazine
Timeless Tales is a digital magazine exclusively publishing retellings of fairy tales and classic myths since 2013. Please be sure follow them on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
Andrea’s other writing published by Timeless Tales - Home is Where the Bone is and The World is Inside