Well, here we are in March already, would you believe? February feels like a month that just sort of happened whilst no one was looking, and already the threat of snow seems like a distant memory. There seems to be a lot of excitement that the end is in sight in regards to our long and lonely plague year, but dear reader, I will believe this when I see it; I have the sneaking suspicion that we are all pretty low down on the list when it comes to receiving the vaccine, and even then, I fear that the only aspects of society governments are interested in opening are ones that make individual politicians richer.
Ah, I digress. So, you might be asking, what happened in February? Well, friends, here’s what you missed out on:
We’re on sale! You know this already, I’m sure, but presently all our current and in stock fanzines are 25% off on etsy. Any funds raised during this period will be going to the Celia Hammond Animal Trust as a thank you for their help over the last month.
For Chinese New Year, we considered the passing of time through the eyes of a traveller, a displacer, one who has slid sideways through the passage of events.
On 11th February, we mused on the passing in 1963 of our school’s patron saint, Sylvia Plath, with a short scene set immediately after the events of All Cats Are Beautiful. But wait, you might cry, alarmed that you have not yet read All Cats Are Beautiful. Well, fear not, as this scene spoils nothing save for the fact that the book ends, and you can get a copy of the paperback—along with its stunningly beautiful cover by Jericho Vilar—for £3.75! Buy now, as adverts oft proclaim, whilst stocks last!
Our new serial, Sophia! debuted! Set 1000 years in the future and detailing the adventures of three swordsmen and their guardian, the work is, ahem, a response to certain lacklustre trends in televisual tokusatsu drama this year. You can read the first three chapters here, here, and here.
And, last but not least, we celebrated both Candlemas and Setsubun in a two-for-one fandango of haunted villages in our story, The Festival of Cats.
Supporters of the school also received a sneak peak at a forthcoming project from our headmistress, in the shape of an excised scene that warranted a big old spoiler warning. We also released short fictional musings on the independence of Taiwan yesterday in commemoration of the victims of the White Terror, and our tongue-in-cheek story in celebration of Nintendo’s Pokémon Day, The Sheep and the Goats, will be available to read for non-supporters at the end of the week. Our headmistress also burst into the offices of Jericho Vilar and Jason S. Kenney’s Blusterhouse this week in order to complain heartily about DC’s use of the character, John Constantine. Yes, she would very much like to speak to the manager.
This wraps it up for another month at the Esther Greenwood School for Girls. Once again, we thank you for all your support.