The Uroboros Mirror, A Basil Rosa Story Published In The Bloomin' Onion, October, 2025

 

A Basil Rosa story, The Uroboros Mirror, is now available in Issue Number Two of the online magazine, The Bloomin' Onion. https://www.thebloominonion.com/the-ouroboros-mirror-issue-two

Many thanks to Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Groves.

Here is a link to main page of The Bloomin' Onion:  https://www.thebloominonion.com/

Here is the first paragraph:

The Uroboros Mirror

by Basil Rosa

In the 1980s, while wearing red leather pants, it hit me—I was a girl in a man’s body. Bopping about, my hair spiked and dyed peacock blue, a ring in one nostril, I wanted to be Cindy Lauper. I kept my Sony Walkman and earbuds on, determined never to conform or lose the humor and optimism my favorites songs delivered, though I vacillated between “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama, and Funboy Three’s “The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum.”