Cassandra Passarelli

2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty, now collected together in book form. The call out continued until the end of the year, and here are the collected and eclectic responses, from authors and poets from all corners of the UK and further afield, including Sarah Evans, Nick Rawlinson, Helen Morris, Owen Townend, Alison Lock, Peter de Ville, Cassandra Passarelli, David Guy, Carolyn Eden, Brian Johnstone, Andrew McCallum, Bernie Howley, Jeremy Dixon, Liam Hogan, Jim Cogan, Katy Darby, David Mathews, Anna Fodorova, Cherry Potts, Richard Smyth.

Impermanence. Suffering. No-Self.The Three Marks characterise all existence. Change, dissatisfaction and questions of identity lie at the core of this collection. Each story, born of an obsession with a moment, nudges us toward the liminal space where literature and spirituality converge. Passarelli's fiction engages with these themes, not to mire but to free us from suffering. Nothing is eternal, but the truths touched on in these pages will endure long beyond the reading of them.