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Cynthea Masson

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Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English department at Vancouver Island University. After completing a Ph.D. in English with a focus on medieval mysticism, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship involving work with medieval alchemical manuscripts at the British Library. In addition to articles on mysticism and alchemy, many of her publications over the past decade have been in the area of television studies. She is a co-editor of the academic book Reading Joss Whedon (Syracuse University Press, 2014); her fiction includes The Elijah Tree (Rebel Satori, 2009). She lives in British Columbia.

After the Fall

Moments ago, as I typed the title of this blog post, I simultaneously noted the twinkle in my eye. That’s not a corny metaphor. It was the start of a migraine. I paused to take mitigating meds. Even so, the migraine’s kaleidoscopic aura currently and persistently makes its way across my left eye. Still, I am here.

You may recall that I live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. W

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Published on August 26, 2023 16:52
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