Parables

by Sapphira Olson

“As humans we are propelled forward by our emotions and our subconscious, however much we like to think the rational part of us is the captain of our ship. It is to that emotional core of you that I offer up these parables. They are an imaginary fictional space into which I invite you to step. … imagined possibilities full of truth, excitement and discovery.”

It is summer. The grapes have grown ripe on the vine. You sit and listen under the shade of the olive tree as Jesus and the Greek God of the grape harvest Dionysus drink together and weave parables into your imagination.

In a secular world, this collection of intriguing and thought-provoking stories, of the interaction between the mundane and the divine, marks a welcome return by the author Sapphira Olson. Allegories that link future and past with imagination reaching out beyond the horizon, intended to help illuminate the meaning of one’s life to the reader.

My husband, Umberto, once told me to ‘write because the desire comes from your heart’ and that is what I have done in Parables. I have lived for so long, suffocating in a world where I was taught that my reality, my beliefs and who I am are all based on a factual understanding of the world. Writing Parables was like coming up for air, and I hope that in reading it you will breathe in again and remember what it is to feel alive.
– Sapphira Olson

Sapphira Olson’s first public recognition came as one of the protagonists in An Android Awakes, published in 2015. In 2018, Fictional Alignment by author Mike French recounted the tragic events that led to the Altostratus disaster and Sapphira’s subsequent abduction by zealots, acting on behalf of the self-styled Bureau for Fictional Alignment, as a direct result of the success of her book Humans (An Assortment of Minor Defects). As the increasingly bizarre sequence of incidents staged by her abductors played out, she met, fell in love with, and eventually married the explorer Umberto Amundsen. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the whole experience caused Sapphira to re-assess the meaning of existence, so she, and Umberto, withdrew from public life for a few years. The result is Parables, her first new work since her father’s death.

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Parables, was published in a digital edition on 22nd February 2019 and in paperback on 5th August 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-911409-52-6 eBook Typical price £2.99 / €3.49 / $3.99
ISBN: 978-1-911409-42-7 paperback 176pp List price £10 / €12 / $18
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