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ISSUE 14: CONTRIBUTORS
Derek Anderson, Christian Monson, Daniel McKay, Elijah Petty, Amy Collini, J. Check, Chloé Agar, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kate Shannon, Archita Mittra, Rachel Rodman, Josh Pearce, Jennifer Crow, Pia Bhatia, Prashanth Gopalan & Anthony Perconti
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Four Moons
Four Moons John Philip Johnson 1. Potential of Light With three new moons shining over us, they say we have conquered the darkness. I hate it, but the thought fills even me with a jingoistic pride. We get so much more done. They were hammered out of asteroids, fixed...
Coming of Age In A Visual World
Last week, Salik and I made a short video based on a poem he wrote in Nepali about a revolutionary poet. It crossed a hundred views in a matter of few days. It’s a small but significant number for a poem. The popularity of film as a medium is partly due to its...
The Tailings by Brian Daniel Green
Podcast: Read by Florita Gunasekara Vagovidopito squatted in his hovel at the center of the Sun. A place so cold, the Sun’s heat only managed a single drip down the blackened icicle hanging from his pointy warty nose. Hunched over, he carved every new soul and blew...
An Indian Architecture Student’s Art Journal
I am mostly inspired by details around me. I always try to highlight an insignificant factor just to show its significance, that even when it is nothing, at some point of time it will become something. Though in most of my works I have myself as the protagonist, which...
Datsue-Ba by Eliza Chan
Illustration by Kieran Walsh We must not have heard her knock. The rice paper door slid open and an elderly woman in a yukata bowed low at the entrance. ‘Excuse my intrusion, I’ve brought your evening meal,’ the attendant said, raising her head and looking briefly at...
Aliens with a Human Face: The Human-like Non-Humans of Doctor Who
For a show that has been television’s longest running Science Fiction series centred on an alien hero and his space and time-travelling telephone box, it’s hard to miss out on the fact that at least half of the show’s action happens on Earth, and very often in...
The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye
Bruce Boston’s poetry is “a cyberglyph of a language / composed of… lightning exclamations” that reveal the ferocity of existence, emotional and literary, under close, (re)invigorating examination. [1] In these two volumes of collected poetry spanning nearly five...
Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir
Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas began a series of coffee-table books on short stories about monsters from across the world. After traveling to Europe in 2014 and Africa in 2015, Jo Thomas had to step out, and Helgadóttir put forward a wonderful edition on Asian...
From the Ruins of the Quake
23 September 2015 – Right after the deadly earthquake that claimed nearly 9000 lives, Nepal suffered from another terrible assault of geography and politics in form of an undeclared economic blockade from India. The unofficial blockade inflicted immense torture on the...
Her Broken Shadow: How I Made a Sci-Fi Feature Film in East Africa
A scene from Dilman Dila's Her Broken Shadow. Watch the trailer here on Youtube. I made Her Broken Shadow on a whim. I had just returned to Uganda after about three months of travel. I had been to South Africa for a literary festival, France for a scifi workshop, a...
Champollion’s Foot by Haris A. Durrani
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? — Rumi Being deprived of a dream is much more cruel than simply being shot and dismissed. — George Saliba ...
Ruin Marble by Arkady Martine
"Ruin Marble" - Illustration by Anju Shah. Medium: White glass marking pencil on black pastel sheet. Spring was late. Two, three weeks at least: April already and every tree barren, scoured and hesitant with the memory of snowbanks. The sorcerer Margaret took to...
Two Visual Poems by Holly Lyn Walrath
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong by Hester J. Rook
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong Hester J. Rook Changes come sudden as storms - a crystalline stillness and then fat drops splatter across the steaming earth - onto rooves - into open windows (rainroar on corrugated iron loud as if it might drown the...
Three Poems by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Pear Tree I am turning into a pear tree. It has taken me months to realize it, but there are things that, after time, one can’t deny. My legs have become stiff and unyielding. Wooden, one might say, if one lacked tact. My bodily systems have begun to feel botanic,...