Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️

@marysmorrison.bsky.social

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Harvard-trained scientist, dark academia urban fantasy writer, owner of the world's smallest dachshund.

A collage showing moody, cool-toned images of: London in a foggy winter; vaulted hallways; libraries in dark tones of wood full of old books; ivy-covered stone university walls; the sterile white interior of a biology lab; white lab mice with pink eyes; and a black-and-white still from the David Lynch film The Elephant Man showing Merrick’s iconic hood.

A moodboard depicting, left to right: 1) a still frame from ‘Voyage of the Demeter’ depicting a man looking at a coffin aboard a ship 2) a print by David Blackwell of sailors standed on ice 3) a print by David Blackwell of a whale beneath an iceburg and a burning ship, 4) a fireplace burning logs, 5) A man cowering in the shadow of a monstrous vampiric presence, 6) ocean ice.

"Actually that sort of checks out... From
what I heard tonight he was a bit fixated on you,"
David added. "You never told me he was writing
you poetry."
"He was writing me poetry?"
David ducked into his room, and returned a
few seconds later with a composition book marked
Poetry. He opened it to a page, and handed it to her.
Your black hair is an agony to me
A passion. The sensual fold
Of silk.
The stones will bear witness
To the tempest of my wanting.
"Wow," said Zarrin. "That... sucks."
"My emotions," intoned David, "are inherently interesting. Experience my masculinity."

Two figures - one, a tall, heavyset white man in an old-fashioned suit and coat with a pocketwatch and an ascot tie; the other, a very short Iranian woman in combat boots and a leather jacket, walking assisted by forearm crutches; both in their twenties - walk in semi-darkness through a lamplit street full of Gothic architecture.