An issue replete with luscious adjectives and flights of form
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Fiction
- Crown of Thorns by Alice M – a tale of sanguineous generosity
- Excerpt from Christ by Sadakichi Hartmann – in which the Only Begotten resists temptation
- transmorgrification by Sara Campos-Silvius – playful experimental monster mash
- Excerpt from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani – offerings at the altar of global capitalism
- Two micros by Stevie Aechelimi Spikes – a collision of lurid, artificial flavours
- Two micros by Line Stockford – vignettes of unsparing introspection
- Excerpts from The Torture Garden and Pornographia by Octave Mirceau and Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (trans. by Kawai Shen) – 1001 nights of colonial decadence
- The dishes are clean, the sun is set by Fan Wu – bruised and tender remembrances…
- I’ll Be With You Soon by Jacob Wiebe – the eremitic eroticism of a phantasmic fantasy
Poetry
- At the Carnival by Anne Spencer – numinous spectacle
- surahs for slovens by Küçük İskender (trans. by Line Stockford) – soulful inquiries
- Two poems by Sennah Yee – bread and psychodrama
Art
- Five illustrations by Jacob Wiebe – startling, haunting visions
- Two photo shoots by Madison Rexx – dreamy creamy, grungy gritty
Hybrid
- Holy Water (Overflow) by Colin Campbell Robinson & Paul Hawkins – montage for modern seekers
- Prism 1 & 2 by Kenneth M Cale – saturated digital grime
Playlist
