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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Issue 129
January 2022
EDITORIAL
Editorial
by Jason Sizemore
ORIGINAL FICTION
It Happened in 'Loontown
by Lavie Tidhar
City Lights
by Yilun Fan
translated by S. Qiouyi Lu
Sheri, At This Very Moment (available 1/18)
by Bianca Sayan
What Una Loves (available 1/25)
by Rich Larson
Lamia (available 2/1)
by Cristina Jurado
translated by Monica Louzon
The Cure for Loneliness (available 2/8)
by M. Shaw
CLASSIC FICTION
O2 Arena
by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
That Rough-Hewn Sun (available 1/20)
by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author M. Shaw (available 2/9)
by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Bianca Sayan (available 1/19)
by Rebecca E. Treasure
Interview with Artist Luka Brico (available 2/10)
by Russell Dickerson
NONFICTION
Tie Me to the Mast (Metaphorically Speaking): Social Writing in the Age of the Pandemic (available 1/21)
by C. S. E. Cooney
The Importance of Presenting Disabilities in Literature (available 1/28)
by Mercedes M. Yardley
REVIEWS
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (available 1/17)
by A.C. Wise
Black Chain by Dominic Martell (available 2/3)
by Keturah Barchers
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (available 2/3)
by Tracy Robinson
Cover art by Luka Brico.
PODCAST FICTION
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SHORT FICTION
O2 Arena
How she had shrunk in such a short while, I couldn’t understand. I held her bony hand in mine, rubbing it on my cheek, desperate to feel something of her as I’d known her before. Her fingers were warm, and I felt a faint throbbing as she breathed laboriously from a cylinder by the side of the bed. Over the edges of the mask, her panicked eyelids fluttered, and I couldn’t tell if she knew I was there.
City Lights
In the end, they both dropped out of school to found City Lights. They had a simple creed: Anyone can dance, regardless of whether you’re an organic human or a cyborg.