
This time my birth as human being
Took place in 1982,
In June, when weather was appealing
And sparkling with the morning dew.
As I grew up, too shy by nature,
My friends were Pushkin, Dante, Wilde
Who wrote of love and of adventure -
I dreamt of the vampire kind.
As time went by, I took to versing
When I got hardly over ten,
And life was constantly coercing
Me to compose and use my pen.
The Foreign Languages Department
I joined in 1999
Served as a very good incitement
For my verse writing to refine.
Then the first sketches were laid out,
When I was drawing to 18,
Ordeal began to come about
To lighten up my dull routine.
Now I'm working as a teacher
Training my students’ English skills
That my department has to feature
And help acquire in the drills.
I’m working on my second novel
Where new skeletons emerge
From the cupboards of the story
Told in Ordeal and on its verge.
It will be more large-scale in action
And introduce the elfin breed
Describing their interaction
With the vampire kind amid.
The two most powerful races
Will meet in fateful intercourse
Unraveling deceitful laces
Woven in love, intrigues and wars.
I’m also planning on compiling
A book of poems I’ve composed
That I consider most beguiling
And feel like making them exposed.
Interview:Hi Tatyana! Thanks for stopping by! Hi Leilani! Thanks for inviting me.
1. Can you tell us a little about yourself?Well, I admire Tilo Wolff, Dreams of Sanity, Johnny Depp, Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Nietzsche and raccoons. I hate corruption and ill-breeding. I believe in beauty and death.
2. Can you tell us the story behind Ordeal? How it came to be? It is a vision-based puzzle I have been piecing together since 1999. I started having those visions-dreams of some separate scenes from the story with little in common but the main characters. As years went by, the visions-dreams continued they started to shape into a holistic picture.
3. Out of all things paranormal, why vampires?They just happened to be vampires. Moreover, Ordeal should be regarded as a prelude to my symphony, a piece of mosaic of my more large-scaled design, which, if you stay tuned, is sure to reveal some more paranormalities with vampires being but an integral component thereof.
4. Your book was very poetic, what made you write in this style?That’s an easy one for me – I’ve always had difficulty in expressing myself in prose.
5. The cover of Ordeal is very simple yet perfect for the book, did you pick it out? How do you feel about it?Everything of genius is said to be simple; and in my case accidental. I was but experimenting with expressing my vision of the story through images when after a number of unthinking movements I came about with what is now the cover of Ordeal. And I honestly doubt I could ever recreate it should such a need arise.
6. The relationship between Alice, Derek, and Luella were memorable. How did they come to be?It came to be quite on itself, I would say, from the world of ideas. I consider versing to be a self-driven process. It is the verse that leads me, not the other way around.
7. If you could spend one night with any paranormal creature, who would it be and why?Why necessarily night I wonder? Of all paranormal creatures I know Cheshire cat seems to be an ideal interlocutor for me. Why? He is smart enough to be all smiles.
8. Describe what you think is a perfect relationship. Diamagnetic levitation, dichotomy of good and evil and π, for example.
Quick questions!
1. Up or Down? On the level.
2. Left or Right? On the safe side.
3. Black or Pink? Blink.
4. Reading or Writing? Musing.
5. Fiction or Nonfiction? Myth.
6. Reality or Fantasy? Fantality.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Is there anything else you'd like to add? The pleasure’s mine. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask at www.elfineness.com. Yours fatefully,
Tatyana Varenko

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