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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 11 months ago
Coming into Dr. McCoy’s Major Authors class, I thought I had a steady and quasi-holistic view of the world and how I fit into it. However, while interacting with Butler’s tests, I began to realize some darker […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 12 months ago
I remember reading an article not too long ago that celebrated one young man’s new vision for firearms with finger-printing technology–an innovation that at first glance seemed too good to be true. And I have to […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
The recent news of riots turned chaos in Baltimore have an eerie similarity to the speculative future that Octavia Butler writes about in her Parable series–a future where humans lose regard and respect for one […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
During class last week, Dr. McCoy mentioned that she regrettably found herself gendering the ooloi, and therefore eunuch, characters of Dawn. Upon reflection, I found this to be true with my reading as well. But […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 1 month ago
Considering that much of Clay’s Ark has been dealing with the infiltration of microbes into the biological systems of humans, I was slightly terrified when I happened upon this article that refers to the study of […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
For the past three years I have been employed by an organization key to special education in my region. This has placed me as a substitute in a variety of classrooms and social environments, and the one thing that […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
While reading Fledgling by Octavia Butler, I found it crucial to pay specific attention to Butler’s creation of an Earth-like world that was not identical to the reader’s reality, but could still plausibly !– […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
In my Freshman year of college, I was required to memorize one poem from a Literature anthology. That poem happened to be “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem proceeds like this:
We wear the mask […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
So, while caught in the depths of youtube– you know, those places where you have no idea how you got there because you started off listening to August Burns Red and then you’re suddenly watching a compilation of […]
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Kayla Marsh wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 3 months ago
While reading Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler, I have been challenged by many controversial plot developments. Being that this novel is a construct of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, I immediately began to think of my […]
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Kayla Marsh joined the group Speculative Fiction 9 years, 3 months ago
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Kayla Marsh became a registered member 9 years, 3 months ago