By Sondis Florin
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Review & Description
Reading like excerpted entries from an archeologist’s journal, Sondis Florin describes an imagined forest from a distant age and paints a striking portrait that is at once disturbing, haunting, beautiful, and terrifyingly foreign. Using a series of beautifully depicted fictitious artifacts, Florin reveals a world controlled by a mysterious authoritarian group known as the Index, a landscape torn apart by generations of war, nightmares that infect minds, and frightening sentries that stand watch along the perimeter of the forest. This is a short story that reads like a directory from an alternate reality, an alphabetical catalog.
Sections include:
Arm Wrestlers
Bears
Caterpillars
Daredevils
Earth Tones
Forest
[redacted]
Headwind
Index
Jackets
Kick Drums
Lester
Morris
Nocturnal Torment
Onlookers
Plumes
Quarantine
Rabbits
Subway Caves
Tunnels
Unusual Willow
Vital Equipment
Willow (Default Position)
X
Yellow
Zora
“The Alphabetical Forest” is a 2,800-word short story that began as a project for the Experimental Forms class in the Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at University of Baltimore. Read more
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