Issue 54: Summer 2021

Fiction

Name and Date

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows what two tourists visiting a Caribbean Island did on three different days between August 21st and September 3rd 2018.

Discovery of Flight

I first notice him in the elevator, its air sharp with urine as it creeps from floor to floor. There are no princes at the Salvation Army, but he is reasonably nice-looking.

Back to Where You Came From

This was a nice place before YOU came, read the inky print penned by a jittery hand. The paper was folded in half and stabbed to the door with a push pin.
Poetry

The Siblings

Marlon Hacla’s latest book, Melismas—translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim—was published by OOMPH Press.

The New Combini

Two Poems

[Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,]

from STONES SERIES

Interviews

A Conversation with Carrie Jenkins

Carrie Jenkins is a public philosopher, scholar, and author who has received critical acclaim for her book What Love Is and What It Could Be (Basic Books, 2017).
Reviews

All Manner of Shades of Green: Callum Angus’s A Natural History of Transition

Callum Angus’s debut, A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press), is a collection of eight short stories, each uniquely asserting that trans people are not limited to a single transition.

In Ghost Forest’s Silence, We Are at Peace

Great Britain ends its 156-year rule over Hong Kong in 1997. Before the handover, many Hong Kongese living in the soon-to-be Chinese Special Administrative Region are concerned about the city’s future.