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Bugs Bunny and the Election of Donald Trump

Note: This was originally from 2016. Do I think the avatar of the trickster is still at play in the 2024 election? I think we’ve gone straight on to authoritarian rule and things will only get worse.  What’s up, Doc? The carrot-smacking, trouble-making, cross-dressing, opera-loving rabbit, the bane of Elmer Fudd’s existence, encapsulates the American psyche. He’s a trickster, a rogue, a mischief-maker — in an earlier incarnation he was Brer Rabbit, and in still Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Woke up in Mordor

Note: I originally wrote this in January 2017. It felt right to revisit. I think this time though, I am going to raise my head and my voice.  I went to bed in the Shire, woke up in Mordor, Exchanged comfort for horror And complacency for fear. But the world that I woke in Is the same some folks walk in, And it’s not their fault This map isn’t mine. I’ve just been lucky, Protected Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago
a green elfin woman peers out at the reader under text that reads Into the Dark Patrice Sarath

Hell: A Rescue Mission, Into the Dark, and my life as a writer and filmmaker

I don’t even know where to start. Was it in 2018 when I wrote the first draft of “Hell: A Rescue Mission?” Or maybe it was in 2022 when Ian Whates, publisher of NewCon Press and editor of Parsec Magazine reached out to me to buy my story, “Theo Ballinchard and the Oranges of Possibility,” a short story in the world of The Sisters Mederos and Fog Season. Or maybe, it was when I decided Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago