Issue 69: 23 August 2018

/Issue 69: 23 August 2018

Bad News

By | 2020-11-06T15:43:41-08:00 August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 69: 23 August 2018|Tags: , , |

By Ellen Girardeau Kempler   In one stop- action second you spin in slow motion over the sharp edge of knowing. There was then & there is now. No scrabbling back up the cliff face. No rewind button. No cartoon-stopping on the way down. No spaceship to beam you away. No, the pressure is in the [...]

The Sestina of Forbidden Words

By | 2018-08-21T15:44:52-07:00 August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 69: 23 August 2018|Tags: , |

By Mark J. Mitchell                                                 For Ruth Hulbert   In the dream you’re vulnerable— small, twisted on yourself—a fetus waiting for limbs to awake to their diversity, still unsure of your transgender. As yet, you have no sense of entitlement, just a fear, unnamed, somehow science based. It’s cold where you dream. Evidence is based on [...]

Two poems by Ginny Lowe Connors

By | 2020-11-06T16:19:31-08:00 August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 69: 23 August 2018|Tags: , , |

Onslaught It spins like a gyroscope, Our planet. My head. Wobbles like a promise too difficult to keep as the news comes crashing this way—space stones hurling toward us from beyond or from that hidden place we carry within— a secret darkness, unknowable, unthinkable. O disaster with a tail of flame you’re hurtling this way [...]

What ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Reveals about Humans

By | 2018-08-23T08:10:42-07:00 August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 69: 23 August 2018|Tags: , |

By Martin Ott   Yes, we can be convinced to cheer for our own extinction. My coworker debates which side to root for but settles on apes. Humans act like monsters or have always yanked borderlines into garrotes. The creatures learn to communicate and are almost undone by curses, signs, and guns. Least among us is [...]