A Hole Walked In

A Hole Walked In is a thrilling piece of surrealist-gothic-body-horror short fiction by Sarah Cavar.

This mini-chapbook is part of the Cup & Dagger series — the mini version of Sword & Kettle. Each mini-chap is 12 total pages, including covers! We have an incredible lineup of authors, and our series includes fantasy, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror, & poetry.

Content Notes: body horror, disordered eating, descriptions of blood and gore, self-harm. 

Meet the Creators

[sarah] Cavar is a PhD student, writer, and critically Mad transgender-about-town, and serves as managing editor at Stone of Madness Press and founding editor of swallow:tale press. Author of three chapbooks, A HOLE WALKED IN (Sword & Kettle Press), THE DREAM JOURNALS (giallo lit), and OUT OF MIND & INTO BODY (Ethel Press, 2022), they have also had work in Bitch Magazine, Disability Studies Quarterly, Electric Literature, The Offing, and elsewhere. Cavar lives online at www.cavar.club and tweets @cavarsarah.

Levi Taylor Booker (Artist) is a queer nonbinary artist currently living and working as an organic vegetable and flower farmer in Roxbury, CT. Working with various mediums ranging from handmade paper, to sculpture, to illustrative printmaking, their art practice explores themes of monstrosity, queer identity, spiritual connection to nature, and the physicality of making. They graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in studio art and have exhibited their work at the Morgan Conservatory (Cleveland, OH), University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA), Hampshire College Art Gallery (Amherst, MA), Blanchard Gallery (South Hadley, MA), and A.P.E. 33 Hawley Gallery (Northampton, MA). Find them at levitaylorbooker.com and @ltb.art.

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