Clues to Mixed Spices

This publication holds clues to the anthology "Mixed Spices". Mixed Spices contains various kinds of very short stories and a few poems. Some of the material is downright hilarious or as light as a fairy tale, some of it is dark and gloomy, and some of it tries to trip you up the way certain zen koans do. One reader compared it to Spike Milligan's writings, another one felt that Mixed Spices snuggles up right next to Donald Barthelme's work, and exactly as expected, others liked some parts of it but not all of it.

Angelina Souren started exploring bioethics topics like inequality, poverty, neurodiversity, personality disorders, neuroscience, bioethics, inclusivity - and its opposite, otherization - as well as speciesism but also stalking and extremism after she relocated from Southampton to Portsmouth in 2009. Both are in southern England, but Angelina is Dutch and has also lived in the States. She then realized that she'd known two autistic people for decades. She'd always maintained that she didn't know a thing about autism and that she didn't know anyone who was autistic. She also discovered that her best friend of decades – a witty and highly intelligent woman – has a narcissistic personality disorder. People who have this are often vilified. Angelina already wrote stories in primary school, was on her school's first newspaper team and managed to get a letter published in a national magazine when she was still a teenager. That letter was about a televised play by G.B. Shaw. Angelina has since edited numerous scientific publications and grant proposals, penned snappy articles for geochemists and environmental chemists as well as for the print magazine Elements of global consultancy firm Arcadis. She is behind several science books in the Dutch "For Dummies" series (biology, astronomy, genetics, forensics, weather, chemistry). She's published a bit of quirky flash fiction reminiscent of the style of Donald Barthelme and Spike Milligan as well as non-fiction. She used to work in tourism and hospitality in Amsterdam before she decided to turn herself into a scientist. She had herself tested extensively, then quit her job and enrolled at university. She graduated with a MSc – cum laude – and an additional diploma for chemical oceanography research, as well as two certificates for evening classes at the Netherlands School for Journalism. She's since worked with and at universities in, mostly, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Among other things, she has previously served as board member for the Environmental Chemistry (and Toxicology) Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), as member of board and several committees for a foundation for women in science and technology, as associate editor for the US-based Geochemical Society and as member of Portsmouth City Council's Portsmouth Environmental Forum.