DEMON LOVER WITCH
Two demons seduce a Witch, and reveal a mortal enemy.
Present-day. The Hudson Valley. Carmilla and Vladimir are Gallu demons. Together for eons, their love eternal, they’ve been persecuted, hanged, beaten, and burned. Finally, they learn to live among humans. But human life is so, so boring. The spark is gone. So they prey on small Hudson Valley towns, seducing sexy couples, and devouring them after.
It’s simple fun and it works. Their romance is rekindled.
Then, they meet the mysterious bookseller, Sahira. They seduce her like the rest, but the very act reveals her to be a mortal enemy. For Sahira’s veins run with the blood of the Witch. Most people think of Witch as an occupation. But Witches are powerful beings, created by the goddess Hekate at the dawn of time, for one purpose: destroying Gallu demons.
Unaware of her heritage, Sahira seeks enlightenment, power, something she feels deep inside, but cannot express. Until her new lovers show her a world of magic and myth, and awaken the Witch inside.
Carmilla’s lust for Sahira turns to obsession. Vladimir’s fear of the Witch’s power turns to terror. A tragic threesome unfolds across space and time, from the modern-day Hudson Valley, to the primordial shores of their forebears.
Mark Harris
Mark is a writer, experience designer, and co-owner of Stanza Books. As a writer, Mark has written plays, interactive stories, audio dramas, and one novel. As an experience designer and creative technologist, Mark has worked on immersive installations, museums, and corporate environments around the world.
Tamalyn Miller
Words are immaterial, yet they have a primal capacity to conjure, to call into existence. I play with this paradox, creating objects, installations and performances that arise from and inform numinous original texts. Drawing upon diverse cultural sources and periods, I blend residues of ancient systems with contemporary perspectives and forms. Through observation and research, often with a focus on the natural world, I distill complex phenomena into otherworldly texts, objects, and music that suggest recovered artifacts or rites charged with mysterious powers and functions. My work hovers at junctures: the threshold between spirit and materiality for instance, or the emergence of meaning from transrationality.