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Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens
“If you’ve ever walked into a swamp and felt like something was watching you—really watching you—Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens will reach into your chest and squeeze. Published by the reliably radical Stelliform Press, this novella is a gut-punch of atmospheric folk horror, dripping with grief, beauty, and the heavy scent of rot.”
by: Justine Norton-Kertson
“A woman allies with vengeful river spirits in Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s eerie novel Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens.”
by: Isabella Zhou
“An ecological horror of violence, violation and vengeance and yet filled with such stunning, lyrical and gorgeous beauty, this novella is hard to pin down if you’re trying to find a genre. “
by: Rhiannon Boyle
Interview with Mary Woodbury of Dragonfly.eco
Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s novella leads us through a decadently aromatic world: notes of orchids, chanterelle mushrooms and plush moss; sterilized and burned bedsheets abound. Just out of frame, girls long-dead slip past us, organza-like. A dizzying and beautiful debut, Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens explores life as a Romany woman in Canada, and the flowers that refuse to die amidst the decaying world of capitalism. -Daisuke Shen, author of Vague Predictions & Prophecies (Clash Books) and Funeral (Kernpunkt Press)