{"id":520,"date":"2016-12-31T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=520"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:09:44","slug":"suspiria-a-fairytale-in-sighs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Suspiria: A Fairytale in Sighs&#8221; by Jayme Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><p style=\"font-family:Georgia\" \"font-size:11px\" \"font-weight:400\">\r\n                                      \r\n                                           ILLUSTRATIONS\r\n\r\nSuzy Bannion, Portrait of a snow white face\t.\t.\t.   <em>Frontispiece<\/em>\r\n\r\nTorrential rain in Freiburg, Germany \t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.        4\r\nThe red fa\u00e7ade of the Dance Academy\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       .       12\r\nA girl runs through the rain, through the forest\t.\t.\t.\t.       13\r\nLightning, shadow of an ax raised\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       13\r\nFace pressed against a black window\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       20\r\nKnife tearing heart tissue\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       .       21\r\n\r\nHallway draped in red velvet, a flash of dizzying light\t.\t.\t28\r\nSuzy falls to the floor, blood dripping from her mouth \t.\t.\t30\r\nPoisoned wine, Suzy sleeps in her little bed\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       36\r\nSuzy and Sara tread water, whisper\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       37\r\nBlack heels crunch writhing larvae\t\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       40\r\nHeavy breathing behind the curtain\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       44\r\nA pulsing light emanates from the secret door\t.\t.\t.\t.\t53\r\nStraight razor lifts the lock\t\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       56\r\nRoom full of razor wire, tightening  .\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       58\r\nPoison poured down the sink\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       .       .      62\r\n\r\nSuzy reaches for the blue Iris\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       .       .      65\r\nHiding behind the velvet curtains\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       67\r\nEyes run through with pins\t\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       69\r\nThe coven learns of Suzy\u2019s hiding place\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       72\r\nThe bedroom of Helena Marcos, head of the coven\t.\t.\t.\t75\r\nSuzy grabs the crystal plumage from the peacock\t.\t.\t.\t76\r\nLightning flash, the outline of the invisible witch\t.\t.\t.       78\r\nCrystal peacock feather through the neck\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t80\r\nGlass doorknob explodes before Suzy\u2019s hand\t.\t.\t.\t.\t83\r\nThe fall of the Dance Academy\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.\t.       85\r\n\r\n\r\n                                                   MAPS\r\n\r\nMap of Freiburg, Germany and the nearby Black Forest\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n                                          (<em>inside front cover<\/em>)\r\n\r\n\r\nFloor map of the Dance Academy, including path to the witches\u2019 \r\nquarters (as illustrated by footsteps)\t.\t.\t.\t.     \t.\t.       90\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Jayme Russell is the author of two chapbooks: <em>PINKification<\/em> (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and <em>PINKpoems<\/em> (forthcoming Adjunct Press, 2017). Her writing can also be found in <em>Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Fairy Tale Review<\/em>, and elsewhere. She received her MA in Poetry from Ohio University and her MFA in Poetry from The University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floor map of the Dance Academy, including path to the witches\u2019 quarters (as illustrated by footsteps) . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}