Genre:
Body horror
Language:
English 🇬🇧
Publication:
“Matriphagy” – First place, Marrow Magazine “Labor Pains” Contest.
Published: May 2026.
Summary:
A hybrid essay-and-poetry piece in which a writer assigned to write about spiders interweaves the biology of the self-sacrificing mother spider – whose offspring consume her – with drafts of poems and a memoir of the author’s own dying mother, meditating on maternal sacrifice and the act of writing.
