POMEgranate Magazine

SpiritFarer, Grief, and…Me

  • Maddy Dye
    • “...the whole point of a story is like someone building an emotional experience for you, and if they’re very good writers, and it’s a very good story, everything you’re feeling, you’re feelings safely; you just have to remind yourself of that, that none of this is real...and that in some ways, it’s about building up a...strength around that feeling.” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the Scaredy Cats Horror Show In February of 2020, I was six months out of an abusive relationship. On most days I felt one of three things - very good, very bad, or,,,nothing much at all. SO! While the crowds at PAX* aren’t usually my thing, that year, I had a superpower: in my mutedness, my depression, or my mania, I was IMMUNE to convention claustrophobia. *Penny Arcade Expo - big gaming convention
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