HONEYCUTT, Erin
The Holy Girl

The novelization of films is often reserved for Hollywood blockbusters, ghostwritten and dismissed as literature. This novelette, inspired by Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa (2004), reflects on the complex ties between adolescence’s sexual and spiritual awakenings, the ambiguous meanings of images, words, and gestures, and the elusive concept of “a calling.” The air hums with ambient sounds—whispers, buzzing insects, distant noises—rhyming like an intimate and uneasy connection among the characters’ complexities.

This ekphrastic readingwatchingwriting of Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa by Erin Honeycutt is accompanied by footnotes and excerpts from “Diana’s Tree” by Alejandra Pizarnik.

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Published by Pseudo Press, 2025
Chapbooks / Literature / Film & Video