Mable the Fantasy Electrician
Eghosa O.
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This is a short selection from a bigger piece I have been writing. I wanted to combine something mundane, like electrician work, with things that invoke the fantastical, like magic or a tavern. The combination of old and new is something I wanted to play with, as well as ideas of cultural confusion and identity. This story and by extension this excerpt have been reworked multiple times. Starting as a political drama, then a family conflict, then a story about revolution, and finally I settled on this. A story about someone trying to make it in the world, with cultural baggage that affects almost every part of their life. I drew from my experiences of being a child of an immigrant to make characters imperfect in the practice of their culture. Like so many of us raised in between cultures, we forget or are scared to truly be what we are. I want to show a glimpse of that in my work.
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Creativity is imagination manifested through action, in my case storytelling. Storytelling has always been my passion. As a child, I’d play pretend, and as I grew older, my writing sprouted from those earlier seeds. My passion for storytelling is my drive to contribute innovative ideas to the world.
