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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-10-01 06:59 pm

Potential Titles: Catherynne M. Valente

In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Where the old songs still echo like sonar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Rockets trailing turquoise kerosene plumes - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

The heat-death of prime time television - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

To teach the dinosaurs about ritual practice - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The importance of regular hecatombs - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A brand new hot red myth cycle - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A fake among all the real and gorgeous godheads - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

That is no obstacle to hagiography - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

It is possible to sate a trickster - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Came out of the void beyond Jupiter - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Entropy unravels the very best of us - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Anything that common will become invisible - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Sell your heart off piece by piece - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

What you don't know is going to break you - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Their song comes backward and upside down - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

The fumes of their cleargas hoard - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A dragon's gotta get zen with ephemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

It's not nihilism if there's really no point - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A forgiveness in me the size of eons - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"


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