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Ailsa Bristow’s story “Tides” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 31 December 2021. I wrote the first draft of ”Tides” in 2017. In its first iterations, it was very closely focused on the unnamed protagonist. I’m interested in questions of fate and free will, what we inherit vs. what we choose for ourselves. I wanted to explore a tense relationship between mother and daughter, and explore the urge to rebel against familial duty. And, because …

A question for Ailsa Bristow

Q: What is the first/most recent book that you lost sleep reading/thinking about?

A: I read Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea earlier this year and it’s stayed with me. I loved how Morgenstern created this rich, vivid fantasy world that also tells us so much about our own world and what it means to be human. And I definitely did some writerly swooning over some of the sentences in that book! I highly recommend it, if you haven’t already read it.

Ailsa Bristow’s story “Tides”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 31 December 2021.
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About Ailsa Bristow

Ailsa Bristow is a British writer who grew up living at least half her time in the stories she created. Now she lives in Toronto, with her partner and their idiosyncratic but much loved cat, Steve. She continues to spend most of her time dreaming of other worlds.

www.ailsabristow.ca, @AilsaBristow

Ailsa Bristow’s story “Tides”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 31 December 2021.
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