‘Sandcastles’ is my first and so far my only fiction ever written in English. I wrote some little books and stories in French throughout K-12, but for some reason I never got the opportunity to write fiction in English. Perhaps I did and I forgot. Idk. Picture this, we are studying speculative fiction in class, I just finished Frankenstein, The Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World, and Vathek. Life is shrouded with ominousness. Out of the blue, I am asked to compose my own speculative fiction. I am bewildered. I am […]
This is a silly little French essay I wrote in senior year. I had just found my new passion – gothic literature – and it was going to change the course of my life from then on. Fully invested in Frankenstein, I spent my senior year alluding to it in essays for all my classes (yes, even chemistry) and wrote as many essays as possible either on Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or on the nature vs. nurture debate. This essay is actually titled Le Prométhée moderne, ou une […]
A couple weeks ago I was browsing free ebooks on my phone and landed on Frankenstein. Although I’ve obviously heard of Frankenstein I have never read it nor did I think I would want to read it, since the premise of the novel did not seem to my great interest. But I can affirm that I was surprisingly mistaken and I am happy I gave this one a chance. Some Details Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Original title: Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus Published: January 1, 1818 (this edition: March […]