John Harty’s Reviews > Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing > Status Update

“Silence is asked of us on so many fronts. We are silenced by family values, by the economic class we occupy or want to occupy, by our education, by our ethnicity, by our gender. Fear silences. Loyalty silences. Love silences. Most of us are taught very well to be silent, to live in cultures of censorship, so much so that we easily internalize fear and silence ourselves.”