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Capsule Stories Autumn 2020 Edition: Burning Up
Featuring autumnal poems and prose by emerging and established writers, Capsule Stories Autumn 2020 Edition explores the theme Burning Up. Read about revealing a burning secret deep inside you, a ghost rising from the ashes, falling in love in the heat of the moment. Read about trauma, heartaches, and grief and letting it all burn into ashes. In this 180-page literary magazine, you'll find the words you need to comfort and warm you, to spark a new flame in you during this autumn season.
Burning Up
Your eyes are locked onto the flames as they flicker, their mesmerizing dance holding your attention, making you remember. Fire can remind us of what we have lost. But fire can also help us forget as we burn our memories into ashes. A memory of falling in love in the heat of the moment. Of a handprint seared onto your thigh. Of childhood trauma, of heartaches, of grief. The wind blows thick smoke your way, choking you. Embers spiral into the sky, and you watch, entranced. You remember the things that should have never been burned, of a fire that you have kept inside yourself all this time, afraid to show others, afraid of how it defines you.
The world burns around you, and sometimes it feels like you are burning too. But it is comforting, almost, knowing that all your shame, your mistakes, your accomplishments, they will all burn into ashes. You can let go.
Burning Up
Your eyes are locked onto the flames as they flicker, their mesmerizing dance holding your attention, making you remember. Fire can remind us of what we have lost. But fire can also help us forget as we burn our memories into ashes. A memory of falling in love in the heat of the moment. Of a handprint seared onto your thigh. Of childhood trauma, of heartaches, of grief. The wind blows thick smoke your way, choking you. Embers spiral into the sky, and you watch, entranced. You remember the things that should have never been burned, of a fire that you have kept inside yourself all this time, afraid to show others, afraid of how it defines you.
The world burns around you, and sometimes it feels like you are burning too. But it is comforting, almost, knowing that all your shame, your mistakes, your accomplishments, they will all burn into ashes. You can let go.
180 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2020
About the author
Carolina VonKampen
17 books10 followersI’ve always had a love of reading and writing, and in high school and college, I realized that editing was a perfect combination of those interests. Since then, I’ve been editing anything I can get my hands on: books, blog posts, content marketing, lit mags, magazines, and more. But by far the most fulfilling editorial work has been with Capsule Stories. I love getting to read fresh, new, exciting pieces and help edit and polish them so readers will fall in love with them.
Now, as a freelance editor, I work with indie authors to polish their manuscripts—novels, memoirs, poetry collections, essays, short stories, or business nonfiction—for self-publication or submissions in the traditional publishing world.
I completed the University of Chicago’s editing certificate program and graduated with a BA in English and history. I am a member of ACES: The Society for Editing, Editorial Freelancers Association, and St. Louis Publishers Association. I’m the publisher and editor in chief of Capsule Stories, a print literary magazine published every season.
I write, sometimes. My writing has appeared in HerStry, FIVE:2:ONE’s #thesideshow, Moonchild Magazine, HerStry, and Déraciné Magazine. My short story was nominated by Dream Pop Journal for the 2018 Best of the Net. My experience as a writer informs the approach I take as an editor, and my goal is to be the type of editor I’d want to work with as a writer.
I am available for hire as a freelance editor and book designer and love working with independent authors to help them publish their book or polish their manuscript for querying. For more information about my freelance editing work, visit carolinavonkampen.com. I tweet about editing, among other things, at @carolinamarie_v and talk about books I’m reading at @carolinamariereads on Instagram.
Now, as a freelance editor, I work with indie authors to polish their manuscripts—novels, memoirs, poetry collections, essays, short stories, or business nonfiction—for self-publication or submissions in the traditional publishing world.
I completed the University of Chicago’s editing certificate program and graduated with a BA in English and history. I am a member of ACES: The Society for Editing, Editorial Freelancers Association, and St. Louis Publishers Association. I’m the publisher and editor in chief of Capsule Stories, a print literary magazine published every season.
I write, sometimes. My writing has appeared in HerStry, FIVE:2:ONE’s #thesideshow, Moonchild Magazine, HerStry, and Déraciné Magazine. My short story was nominated by Dream Pop Journal for the 2018 Best of the Net. My experience as a writer informs the approach I take as an editor, and my goal is to be the type of editor I’d want to work with as a writer.
I am available for hire as a freelance editor and book designer and love working with independent authors to help them publish their book or polish their manuscript for querying. For more information about my freelance editing work, visit carolinavonkampen.com. I tweet about editing, among other things, at @carolinamarie_v and talk about books I’m reading at @carolinamariereads on Instagram.
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November 30, 2020
Oftentimes we use literature and art as an escape. Pretty words, abstract emotions, surreal landscapes. But between the lines is a truth, and the truth is that we are in a world in which the streets are burning, our calmness is engulfed in flames of anger and wrath and disappointment. It is hard to live in, but this is what we’ve been given. So we make art in an attempt to quell the flames. The heat seeps from our fingertips and stains the page as we try to make sense and find meaning in the suffering. But burning and heat aren’t always bad. After a fire comes growth, renewal, a fresh start. We hope you find words in these pages that speak to you and provide the comfort, the warmth, the catharsis you need.
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