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Morocco
Morocco is a collection of stories by twelve writers arising out of the Magical Journeys creative writing retreat to Morocco. Each of the different stories opens a door through which the reader is invited into the mysterious, sometimes dark and disturbing, sometimes brilliant and uplifting, story-space of Morocco: a land of salt and oranges, and its own particular magic. Here, you are invited to meet the fig seller, the soothsayer and the music man and to follow them into the deep, warm heart of Morocco. These are stories about how the people we meet change us forever, and how the places we find ourselves in reveal us in new and exciting ways.
138 pages, Paperback
Published August 9, 2019
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September 11, 2019
A great collection of short stories evoking the magic of Morocco. The stories have great individuality and each creates its own separate version of Morocco, either as a central figure, or as a dream at the very edge of the story. These visions are forceful, beguiling, strange and beautiful. They are as diverse, profound and moving as Morocco itself.
March 15, 2020
Beautifully written short stories. I would love to read more!
September 16, 2019
Twelve writers touched by Morocco, bring it to life or hint at its allure in this collection from Claire Steele's Magical Journeys workshops. As one of the twelve authors this has been an adventure in writing, and it has been exciting to have my first short story published here alongside others like me as well as more experienced writers. Light and dark, joy and sorrow, mystery and revelation, all these qualities make their appearance in this volume published by Mardi Books.
I gasped with horror at Nadir; wept at the revelation in The Unbroken Circle; cried out in despair at a choice made in Resurrection; savoured the finely crafted writing in Quickening; and laughed out loud over and again at the word play of ideas in Romjul and the Fish of Fortune. All of the stories tell us something worth knowing - about ourselves and about the World. For observant readers there are also little threads of shared experience across the stories - the result of time spent together during our Magical Journeys retreat in Essaouira.
I gasped with horror at Nadir; wept at the revelation in The Unbroken Circle; cried out in despair at a choice made in Resurrection; savoured the finely crafted writing in Quickening; and laughed out loud over and again at the word play of ideas in Romjul and the Fish of Fortune. All of the stories tell us something worth knowing - about ourselves and about the World. For observant readers there are also little threads of shared experience across the stories - the result of time spent together during our Magical Journeys retreat in Essaouira.
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