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ISSUE 12: CONTRIBUTORS
Malena Salazar Maciá, Toshiya Kamei, Deborah L. Davitt, Dean A. Brink, Drema Deòraich, Raluca Balasa, Dennis Mombauer, I. S. Heynen, May Chong, Logan Thrasher Collins, Holly Day, R. J. Keeler, Z.M. Quỳnh, Aber O. Grand & Michael T. Smith, Arvind Dubey, Kshama Gautam, Shirish Gopal Deshpande, Narendra Petkar, Lorenzo Latrofa, Massimiliano di Lauro & Salik Shah
ART Macrocheira kaempferi (1911) by Theobald Carreras, Wellcome Collection.
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Salik Shah This Extraordinary Being
Malena Salazar Maciá, Toshiya Kamei The Kiss of the Water
Deborah L. Davitt The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima
Dean A. Brink Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire
Raluca Balasa The Executioner General
Dennis Mombauer The Carnival of Human Nature
I. S. Heynen Sonya, Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the Telephone
POETRY
May Chong Social Media Manticore
Logan Thrasher Collins Glimmerglimpse
Michael T. Smith Kirby; Or Everything I Needed to Know About Consumption
R. J. Keeler Mud Dauber Wasp Nest
Aber O. Grand The Satyr’s Acolyte
Logan Thrasher Collins Electrocologies
Michael T. Smith Super Mario; Or, Everything I Needed to Learn About Relationships
Arvind Dubey, Kshama Gautam The Shuttle Took Off / और यान उड़ गया
Lorenzo Latrofa & Massimiliano di Lauro on Animating the Story of Migration & Exile
Crossing the Desert with Malena Salazar Maciá
America Under Siege: Creating An Alternate History with Dean A Brink
May Chong on Managing the Scorching Mess of Social Media
“Upshot takes place soon after the end of the Guatemalan civil war…” — Drema Deòraich
Making Sense of Absurd, All-Encompassing, Terrifying Super-Capitalism with Dennis Mombauer
I.S. Heynen on Building a Post-Apocalyptic World Where a Company of Assassins Reigns Supreme
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Different Boxes
On their third date, Pandora began to open up.
Your Dinner
I’m not sure whether to wipe my cheeks or stay dead. Vincente insisted this morning, every morning, “Absolutely still. A stone. Eyes to the sky, searching for heaven. If you stare long enough, you’ll see it.”
The Trial of Tesslin VanGlaise
“Tesslin VanGlaise stands accused of assaulting a rider,” the inquisitor continued, while she could feel his eyes drinking in the sight of her, “and of practising magic for some years prior to doing so.”
Corvid Dreams
In the dream, you told me / the raven’s secrets, the names / by which crows call themselves, / the secret powers of jays.
The Princess and the Frog: A Review of Gorel and the Pot Bellied God
Lavie Tidhar’s ‘guns and sorcery’ novella Gorel and the Pot Bellied God is a highly entertaining and exotic piece of genre fiction.
Mare Anguis
this is a blank spot / on a map of blank spots / labeled, “here there be”
Still Life
On the TV, you want to watch those
Richard Linklater movies, our answer to sex…
How to Question Asteroid 16 Psyche
Do not ask who did this to her, / who shattered her to her core. // Do not ask what she remembers / of the larger self she’s lost.
Patroclus
Forget he held me in his arms / before our burnt bones shared an urn. // Forget the past and let us rest. / Step up. Bow. Take your own turn.
Afterwards
Life / goes on. // The cats still demand their food, / the garbage trucks still rumble by, / your throat still craves cold liquids.
Rose Glasses over Mercury Mirrors
Who needs a mirror with eyes / like that—eyes that make you trust / your own bones, that know your form / is beautiful because it can dance.
Ghost Apples
Here in the old / Enchantments / you can find remnants / of her still, / her smile a ragged / and torn tarn shore, / her perfume / the come-gone scent / of slapdash rain.
“All true knowing is mutual…”: Notes on Vandana Singh’s Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
Singh’s stories in this collection present a new way of articulating planetarity and narrating the cosmos and map out a new terrain of science fictionality. She incorporates the fantastic, the magical and the wondrous to create a mythopoetic engagement with the cosmos.
Avatar: An English-Italian Anthology of Contemporary Science Fiction from India
Edited by Tarun K. Saint and Francesco Verso, Avatar is a good exhibition of India’s burgeoning science fiction writing community.
A Delicate Magic: Iona Datt Sharma’s Not For Use in Navigation
Iona Datt Sharma’s Not For Use in Navigation is a mélange of earthy magic, queer protagonists, love stories involving sentient spaceships, fables in the distant future, and much else.