“Seaborne treats folklore as an exhausted department of civil service. A rusalka asks for night-shift pay! The Ministry of Folk Safety and Supernatural Affairs links the stories, and the running joke is grim: people need monsters until the monsters become staff. ”
“Vance-like complexity and depth.”
from “The Beast”
The district clerk has asked me for an account of the week before the Grandfathers' Night, and has supplied a form. It allows eleven lines for Circumstances and four for Remarks, so I have used the back of it as well. The clerk will find this irregular, but I observe that whoever drew up the form has never had to describe a wolf in eleven lines.
The clerk asked that we begin with the boot. And so we shall begin with the boots.
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Esme T. Seaborne is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and narrative designer based in Kyiv, who drinks an ungodly amount of coffee and once studied in the UK. Her work has been published in the Sky Island Journal, Space and Time and The Sun.
By day (and frequently by night), she has spent the last fifteen years working as a scriptwriter and narrative designer in the video game industry. She builds worlds, breaks them, and then masterfully convinces players to feel guilty about it. Her journey into storytelling was far from a straight line; having started in journalism, it detoured through theatre stages and recording studios before finding a permanent home in the interactive space.
She draws deeply on her Ukrainian heritage and her experiences in a city in challenging times. Seaborne currently lives and works in Kyiv, where she is developing a collection of short stories.
