Why Do I Write Horror?
By Farah Rose Smith
- Hardback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Egaeus Press (15 Jun. 2019)
Farah Rose Smith is a writer, musician, and photographer whose work often focuses on the Gothic, Decadent, and Surreal. She authored THE ALMANAC OF DUST, EVISCERATOR, numerous short stories in horror and speculative anthologies, and is the founder and editor of MANTID, an anthology series promoting women and diverse writers in Weird Fiction. Her experimental film work has festival received accolades, including Best Short Screenplay (Rapture, 2016) at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival and Best Experimental Film (The Atrocity Shoppe, 2015) at the Shawna Shea Film Festival. She lives in Queens, NY with her partner.
Why I Write
I write for the fearful, and those who have disappeared.
For the dead and dying.
Those with skin as thin as eggshells, dipped in a certain impossible mud, still swimming.
For senses brought to stillness by disease.
For those experiencing life as an impossible sharpness.
For the stillborn, tired, and defeated.
For the dancer with broken feet.
I write for the painter with mangled fingers.
For the devil inside myself who rents a room in every soul.
For the remnants of angels falling as dust through rays of sun.
For everyone and for no one.
I write for my miscarried children.
For my grandmother who won’t remember me soon.
I write for the thread of justice in all things heavy.
For the memory of that which was light in the earliest days.
I write for the sick child in her bed, reading reading reading,
For want of another life.
Not better or worse, but fuller, brighter, longer.
I write for the worry, the tests of life and love,
And those extinguished without sound,
For being fragile, for being depressed.
I write for my friends.
I write for my mother and my husband, my best friends.
And write again and again for them, a chance to paint gold and glory,
In a permanent place among all things tired,
For when I am old – to remember,
And when I am gone – to live again.
-Farah Rose Smith, Why I Write, June 2019
Farah Rose Smith
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