December 2025: The Fool’s Lover / The Foolish Lover

Don your motley suit and marotte, your lute and cap’n’bells! If you please, tell me a turnaround tale. Sing me a sea-changing song. This is no place for discernment! Why, leave all sense at your lover's door! Tell me about uncertainty, tiptoe the line between caution and carelessness. Fold a chatterbox and permit it to tell you what to do. Write upside-down, backwards, and hold it up to another eye. Tell me how you’ve seen yourself in those you’ve loved and lost–or perhaps, how they have seen you through themselves. Tell me about the creation of the self, the false self, contrived, contrary. Don your finest grin and spin the swing-glass mirror. What do you see, when the glass is left in blurring motion? The Fool, or The Fool reversed?

Go forth and conquer,

Emmanuelle Kate.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE DECEMBER 15TH.

Fool (noun)

1. A person who has a great fondness or weakness for someone or something; esp. one who is infatuated or besotted with another person.

2. A jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.