Behind Saint Mark's church, with the leg of a man upon his shoulder

[sovay]

Dear brain. Let me start by saying that it's not that I don't appreciate you dreaming—I haven't had a dream I remembered since the beginning of March that wasn't some kind of grotesque or obvious anxiety nightmare. But while I'm sure it raised the intellectual bar for the next few nights, I really didn't like dreaming about a community event that turned into a race riot (in the dream I thought pogrom). A white man ran out of the school below me carrying the chewed arm of a brown-skinned child in his teeth. Said he was a wolf, only the difference was, a wolf's skin was hairy on the outside. It is interesting to represent racism itself as lycanthropy. Werewolves in mainstream fiction lately seem to function more more as metaphor for marginalized groups. I'm sure something powerful could be done with the reversal if it hasn't already. But it will probably not be me this week and anyway it was a very upsetting dream, thank you.

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[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Uhh, indeed an upsetting dream X[ *offers hugs*

I remember a call for vampire and werewolf stories where they were supposed to be written as big, bad, evil creatures... so that'd be something along these lines, except less elaborate. But I don't remember what the antho was called and whether it ever saw the light of day. :/ It was last year (two years ago?).