STRIXA
The Black Egg
 
Featuring Writing & Original Artwork
by Robert Fitzgerald & Heatherlie Allison 
 
STRIXA is a journal of the atavistic occult, exploring currents of the oneiric, the imaginal, and the surreal. Alternating between thematic constraint and chaotic freedom, STRIXA publishes work that is simultaneously transgressive and sacralized.
 
The Black Egg is STRIXA’s premier issue, dedicated to Our Mother of Darkness—Lilith. This debut, a long-envisioned collaboration between authors Robert Fitzgerald and Heatherlie Allison, holds five distinct works of fiction, ranging in length from flash to novelette. Seeded with historical lore and creaturely correspondences, each tale breathes life into the next, propelling readers into the unforgiving realms of glass vessels, tunnels of flesh, and apocalyptic wastelands reborn. Together in one book, these works convey both the beauty of demise, the bane of devotion: all told with great love for Our Lady. Paired with each tale is an illustration born from blood and dust.
 
 
ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 
I. THE BLACK EGG
by Robert Fitzgerald
Cornered and outcast, the Lilitua weave a new creation story in the form of an egg, marking the trajectory of humankind.
 
II. HOLLOWS CRACKED
by Heatherlie Allison
Seemingly abandoned by her husband, a woman nurtures a mysterious egg found in an orchard grove.
 
III. THE POWDERS OF LILITU
by Robert Fitzgerald
An indulgent sorcerer, possessed by the lust for immortality, conjures an envesseled fate long sealed.
 
IV. MOTHS IN THE BLOOD JAR
by Heatherlie Allison
Desiring a position in a red-light district, a prostitute petitions a sphinx-like Madame and discovers what lies true behind the glass.
 
V. DIALOGUES IN BLOOD
by Robert Fitzgerald
As Lilith plots revenge against the Obscene-God and his children, so too does a menagerie-as-retinue unveil its many faces.