I’m always excited to see new people play with Magical Realism as a genre, which differs from fantasy and other speculative genres in that Magical Realism, what I call MR for short, is really a fusion between literary fiction and one element of fantasy, magic, or suspended disbelief. This seems a simple conceit, no? One aspect of magic—mundane world. But, from my own experience talking about it, not everyone recognizes this genre as a household term until you pair it with nam