She Saw Ghosts . He Saw Bodies
Written by Ric Royer
Illustrations by Jackie Milad
Hand drawn covers by Jackie Milad
1 of 300 limited edition
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She Saw Ghosts, He Saw Bodies consists of two short stories revolving around sleep, death and desire. Two nameless characters find sleep, lose sleep, and sleep through sleep in strangely conjoined worlds where they sift through the hard and soft clues in their surroundings to determine whether they are alive, dead or different than dead.
The piece began as a writing exercise adopted during a bout with insomnia in the summer/fall of 2007. I was finally rejoined with sleep soon after beginning this text, which I eventually picked back up and finished in the fall of 2008.
"Ric Royer writes his fictions with the attention to language of a poet and the staging of scene of a playwright. The interplay between syllables and phrasings, between sleep and sex and death, and between he and she creates a new kind of fiction." ---Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody