The Age of Viability
"We can't do it," Jack said.
Issue 64: Winter 2024
Fiction
Necromantic
I roll onto my side, mindful to not rest too much weight on the cast around my left wrist.
One Way Out
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Hybrid/Experimental
A space for exploring experimental and multi-form writing in combination with disciplines including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, and video; a space of endless possibility.
Poetry
"Wisdom" and "Sonohysterogram"
Growing out of his skull / like some holy weed.
Essays
We Are Human
The phoenix burns and rises from the ashes, but no ashes are left to be reborn from.
The Piano Teacher: On Grief and Queerness
There’s a certain depth of alienation that no tender force can refute.
Interviews
“That Careful Distillation”: An Interview with T. Liem
What are we made of, if not repetitions and alterations?
A Conversation with Sheila Heti
This interview is a time capsule of sorts: first published in The Ex-Puritan (formerly called The Puritan) in 2009 by the publication’s co-founder, Spencer Gordon, lost through the often ephemeral nature of digital media, and then recently rediscovered through the magic of an internet archive known as the Wayback Machine.
Reviews
Beauty in the Brokenness: A Review of Geoff Inverarity’s All the Broken Things
Galiano Island writer Geoff Inverarity’s website describes him as someone who “writes poetry for people who don’t usually like poetry (and for those who usually do).”
Crooked, Iffy: Tom Prime’s Male Pregnancy In Reverse
In his 2023 full-length title, Male Pregnancy in Reverse (New Star Books), Tom Prime seems to be inventing schizo-savvy word fields to extort, jam heterogenous Englishes into, and drill through (think trepanning) to startle, thwart,, and baffle.
