Scoria: Short Prose From The Cinder Cone

“It is near noon in the orchard and small passions of petals are bursting spring into the air. Or perhaps it’s mid-afternoon …”

What happens when two sisters, who grew up under a cinder-cone mountain, put their writing talents together? The answer is Scoria—a compilation of short prose pieces, exploring the scoriac “small bubbles and glassy fragments” of life.

The two clever sisters who lived deep inside the Northern forest just loved to construct brief, extremely pithy fables concerning separation and regeneration. Their joint imaginations run amok in this conjuring trick of a collection – at times wicked bitch brutal, at other times fairy modmother magical. But always superbly crafted nuggets of hypnogogia. He pukapuka iti rawa.

—Vaughan Rapatahana