Hothouse
Literary Journal
Tag: Lindsey Ferris
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Written by Lindsey Ferris With the songs from the musical Come From Away still playing in my ears, the memories my parents have shared over the years of 9/11 comes to mind and I’m left again in awed silence of how the world responded to the devastation. Working off the baby fat from her last…
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This Valentine’s Day, Hothouse’s website staff decided to rebel against cynicism and scorn commodification—they wrote about the different ways they experience love. From a wedding to a quinceañera, read on to discover how love appears (in all its forms!) to each website writer. Christie Basson, Website Editor: This photo is from my parents’ wedding day…
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Written by Lindsey Ferris Whether you celebrate Valentine’s day with a box of chocolates or Ben and Jerry’s, the traditional romantic gesture involves words spoken from the heart. We all know the classic “Roses are red;” however, for the people lucky enough to dodge Cupid’s arrow and are exhausted by the cliches oozing off every…
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Written by Lindsey Ferris Sometimes life can be mundane, and all we want is a little bit of magic to come and shake it up — a sparkle to the reality of life that makes us appreciate the everyday through a new lens. This is what magical realism does for us, whether in the realms…
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This spooky season, we asked our website staff members to come up with their own Gothic styles! Like Southern Gothic before us, each staff member took a place or experience that seems harmless—that is, until you look a little closer.
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