In Seven Stories or the (im) Parting of Friends at Unbanyokatulinys’s Eggs, readers are first immersed in a neurological realm, seen through the eyes of a relative of Casimer Maus. Maus, a German linguist, stumbles upon a new language during her vacation when she gets lost in Luweng Jaran, a cave in Indonesia. While in the cave, Maus found a chamber archway with engravings she copied.
This unfamiliar language triggers a significant internal shift in her life. For the next decade, Maus studied the visual representation of circular connections and a sentence structure that bloomed outward in a spiral. She called the new language Lingkaran.
She planned to announce her discovery to the world, beginning with the Deutsch Linguistic Society. However, her peers proved unwilling to accept the strange occurrences that arose from deciphering the language. Readers are first introduced to Casimer Maus’s discoveries through a heptagram that positions an archetypal animal at each point. These animals gather near a growing tree, seeking truth in contradictions, as they aim to comprehend the world’s interconnectedness (the world womb) from its very beginning.
Through speculative surreal fiction, Casi (Hazel) Cline develops her own theogony and original mythology. Seven Stories shares some common ground with James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake; however, it presents a more approachable examination of metacognitive ideas, clarifying the archetypal patterns of the collective unconscious with animal totems.
Hazel Casimer Cline is a nonbinary writer and witch based in Atlanta, where they live with their partner, Steven, and their cats. They have been involved in both local and international Surrealist communities. Hazel served as an editor of Peculiar Mormyrid Journal for nearly ten years and participated in the Atlanta Surrealist Group, which met regularly for several years. They have co-organized three Surrealist exhibitions in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. Currently, Hazel is focusing on their writing. They also work with film, experimental music, and visual art, including collage, drawing, and painting. https://ephemeralityart.com/
Steven Cline is based in Atlanta and has been involved in surrealist activity for the past decade, including Peculiar Mormyrid Journal and the Atlanta Surrealist Group. He has co-organized exhibitions in Atlanta and Birmingham and has participated in others in Paris. His first book of fiction, Planetoid Sassafras, was published by Montag Press under the name Stephanie Klein. A subsequent book of surrealist nonfiction, AMOK, was published by Trapart Press. https://stevenclineart.com/
Atlanta Surrealist page: https://atlantasurrealistgroup.com/
Egregore book: https://issuu.com/sjcline87/docs/digital-compressed
Mitchell Pluto 