a fun little poem about the classic myth of pygmalion, and if your statue-come-alive would want you in return

Pygmalion, by Jo Walton

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pygmalion-120199721?post_id=120199721

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A Tour of the Blue Palace, by Bree Wernicke

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/a-tour-of-the-blue-palace/

➤ a scifi poem with a fun voice, the pov of a tour guide trying brightly to maintain the official story that nothing's wrong

➤ 500 words in length

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My Last Duke, by Jess Nevins

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/my-last-duke/

- narrative poetry from the pov of a dead woman to her terrible husband's new wife

- really fun and compelling to read on in a vacuum, but also it is clearly written in response to Browning's famous poem "My Last Duchess" and is from the pov of the dead woman that poem is about!

- also seems to be an alternate history narrative? again you don't need to know this to appreciate the poem but after reading it I had to look up the characters involved. POV character is Lucrezia de' Medici, her terrible husband is Alfonso II d'Este, but as far as I can tell the new wife is someone who in irl history died in infancy: Isabella, daughter of Charles III of Savoy.

- and now I really want to know more about the history of the time period and the ways that this would have affected things and why the author made these choices for the story of the poem!

- anyway. I like the poem. it's good.

- 1k words in length

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Ming Yi's Monologue, by Zdenka

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47475640

- The original Ming Yi doesn't get much attention in fanworks, perhaps understandably since he never appears on-screen in tgcf while alive (or as a ghost, or otherwise able to exist and communicate), but he's a fascinating character to speculate about through what we know of him!

- This short work is from Ming Yi's pov, a poem addressed to He Xuan from after death

- it's so much fun! I love the pov, and I love the air of menace and resentment from ming yi towards his usurper. Perfect ending.

- 300 words in length

This poem by @MarissaLingen is so powerful, it hit me like a gut punch, and if you're a woman - especially one with ties to America, with its current crisis around reproductive health - it may hit you that way, too. SO good: https://reckoning.press/exception/

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