Literary Fiction
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
2019·48 pages
Mary Ventura boards a mysterious train to the Ninth Kingdom, exploring themes of fate, depression, and agency in a dark, symbolic tale.
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Mary Ventura boards a mysterious train to the Ninth Kingdom, exploring themes of fate, depression, and agency in a dark, symbolic tale.
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I am glad that someone was able to find this short story and publish it. ... ‘The shuttle of the train wheel struck doom into her brain.’ If life is hurtling us towards our destruction, one would wish we could at least take control over our inevitable course towards corpse-hood. Or is our trajectory so strongly determined by forces outside of us that we barely have any agency left. Such is the question in Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, a story written by Sylvia Plath when she was 20 years o
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Romance & sex
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No sexual content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Minor unsettling imagery; no graphic violence depicted.
Profanity
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No profanity depicted.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation depicted.
Religious content
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Minor allegorical references to Dantean themes of hell.
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult themes depicted.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Minor themes of societal pressure and control.
Self-harm / suicide
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Major themes of depression and suicide ideation; metaphorical journey to death.
Abuse & suffering
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Moderate themes of emotional suffering and loss of agency.
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