For centuries, fairytales and folklore have served audiences of all ages as sources of inspiration and grim moral lessons. Writers in recent years have taken some of these stories and re-imagined them, or even turned them completely on their heads in order to bring their timelessness into our modern age. Books like Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and…
One of my writing professors once told the class to “write weirdly about the plain things, and plainly about the weird things.” And within Nocturnal Mind we have frequently commented on the strange beauty of contrast—whether from characters, ideas, settings, or situations. Beautiful songs about death; frightening-looking people having the gentlest souls… These are things…