PIERCING THE VEIL: “MOTHER OF FLIES” – Putrefaction, Reclamation And Slaying The Beast By JILLIAN KRISTINAMonsters are real. They take many forms and wear myriad faces. They breathe, they feed, they spread. They terrorize and pulverize. We can fight them....
PIERCING THE VEIL: RECKONING WITH THE VIRGO ECLIPSE WITH AISLINN CLARKE’S “FRÉWAKA” By JILLIAN KRISTINA Ireland, 1973. A wedding, a raucous dance floor. A mysterious procession arrives – men with straw hats concealing their faces. A goat draped with...
Piercing the Veil: Fatal Fractures and Finality in “BLACK SWAN” By JILLIAN KRISTINA Precision, poise, taking every direction. Disciplined, subdued, vying for perfection. Contorting to fit within a prison, not of our own creation – a caged bird, bursting at...
INTERVIEW: Alexandra West on Navigating Concepts of Beauty, Worth and Acceptance in “GORE-GEOUS: PERSONAL ESSAYS ON BEAUTY AND HORROR” By JILLIAN KRISTINA Is it trauma response, or is it Ozempic? I couldn’t help but cackle as I read the dark line from Alexandra West’s...
PIERCING THE VEIL: MEETING RACHEL STAVIS – INTERVIEW WITH AN EXORCIST By JILLIAN KRISTINA For this very special installment of PIERCING THE VEIL, I had the immense honor of speaking with someone who has lived most of her life riding the hedge and communing with the...
