Elena Georgiou

Writer, editor, and professor Elena Georgiou: author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants and mercy mercy me; co-editor of The World in Us...

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Looking For A Sanctuary In Order To Surrender

By e g

Is it ever possible to be truly connected to another being? There is a fear that exists inside most of us, and it is this fear that keeps us on our islands. We are right to feel afraid. When we were first introduced to the world, it shocked us how nonchalant it was. Even small […]

The Encouragement of Flowers

By e g

Does a flower feel that it’s gone too far? * I have lived a long time and therefore I have witnessed the blooming of many flowers. In fact, I have even lived across the road from a botanical garden, with a wide variety of flowers as neighbors. What I can tell you is that they […]

About The Celestials

By e g

Why is it that, when surrounded by others all the time, I feel so hopelessly alone? There is something special about the child that has to be the parent to her parents. It makes her into something celestial. Actually, it makes her into that thing that is one step away from a deity. All this […]

The Plea

By e g

What is the sound of snow? * There are some secrets that should never be spoken. I want to tell you, but if I do then I know the spell will be broken and we will have robbed it of its magic. Let me tell you this instead and hope that it will do in […]

Held

By e g

“What is possible now, after all this time?” * You can’t figure out how to let it in. Do you open the door? Stand in the doorway? Wait for someone who looks right and beckon her (or him) in? But you have done this before—this beckoning on the basis of what ‘looks right,’ and this […]

Sudden Weightlessness

By e g

“How did the DJ break his hands?” * It goes back way way longer than from when he started spinning disks. The fracture began at age seven. He had fallen in love with her and she had told him how much she loved rocks. He had no back yard at home, so he begged his […]

A Slap of Happiness

By e g

Was he free? Was he happy? * I’m not a formally educated person. I have not been to university. All I have is my own experience of the world, and I have yet to meet any He or She who is free. So he probably was not free. But this probably makes him like ninety-nine […]

“Mute kiss”

By e g

Are the flower and fruit/held out to us in love, or merely thrust/up at us, their masters, like a fist?/Or are they the lords, asleep amongst the roots,/granting to us in their great largesse/ this hybrid thing—part brute force, part mute kiss? * It is clear to me that you have been born into a […]

Touching The Edge

By e g

“Did you appear, to tap at my dark window?” * I had come to perform a ritual; to say goodbye to you in my own way. I had been raised to believe the words of the service—for better, for worse—but I had not imagined how bad the worse bit could get. I had written down […]

Mapreading 101

By e g

Debating in Felchville writes, I am thinking of taking someone as my guru. Can you tell me why I would do this? I have been mulling this over for twenty-four hours because I did not trust my immediate response. Your question had a physical response on me—it knocked the wind out of my body. I […]

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NEW BOOK FOR 2018!

The Immigrant's Refrigerator
Fiction. Short Stories.
GenPop Books, 2018

If luck is on an author’s side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope.

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