James Paxton Priestley

The GossamerWight Anthology

Submissions Announcement #1 We are excited to announce that the first edition (pilot) of the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology has reached the advanced planning stage. Your story could appear in me! The cover for GossamerWight's 1st Edition (Pilot) Anthology, with the theme to be announced. We will advertise

Metamorphosis

It will not have escaped the attention of our members that we have given this website a significant makeover... and not in appearance alone. In fact, one might say the changes represent a complete metamorphosis. Our website has broken free from its former chrysalis self and taken wing to mature

Spores

‘The forests have unleashed a tempest, and spores now dance on the wind.’ — Dr João Miguel Gonçalves. Mycologist. For any first-time visitor to the sprawling complex of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control on Bull Street, Columbia, finding the whereabouts of Doctor Aline Silva could prove as

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

In this essay, I explore how adoption of the graphic novel form by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel for her 2006 autography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic allowed her, I contend, to create a narrative with a deeper, more nuanced message than that possible in prose form alone.[1] Of

Treasures

Never had I so longed to possess the power of precognition. Were it the case, then I would have foreseen upon waking that by eleven o’clock, destiny had appointed this day and time to have me staring at the flaking, corporation brown gloss paint of another’s closed front

Jacky De’Ath

As an ardent student of Greek mythology, Jacky De’Ath had long ago concluded that the Moirai—the trinity of goddesses more commonly known as The Fates—had spun and fashioned their web of destiny so intricately and tightly that they would compel her to adopt a life of criminality.