Vo. 8, Other Worlds
Nonfiction
“We do the best we can, you know?”
Maya L. Kapoor, “The Most Beautiful Desert You’ve Never Seen”
Mollie Murray, “On Becoming a Birder”
Reviews
“Whitehead offers no false promises, only the reassurance that the journey continues.”
Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad”
Sven Birkerts, “Changing the Subject”
Gabriel Blackwell, “Madeline E.”
“We are adrift in time and space, and yet we insist on playing house.”
Carlo Matos, “It’s Best Not To Interrupt Her Experiments”
Poetry
Kara Candito, “To Save One Animal From Sickness” & more
“whoever came down / the sidewalk, shadow-casting & clumsy”
“The devil pisses himself the family organ clangs”
Patrick Cantrell, “The Sun Yells Hallelujah on the Creek’s Skin”
“What bounces between oranges and owls shall be yours.”
Translation
Aztec Codex, “Cantares Mexicanos, VII & IX”
David Bowles, “Songs of Mexico, VII & IX”
Diego Alfaro Palma, “Madriguera” & “Relatividad General”
Lucian Mattison, “Warren” & “General Relativity”
Interviews
Flash
Jamie Wagman, “An Ode to Delmar”
“They were sure of tomorrow, demanded it as a human right.”
L. N. Holmes, “One Woman’s Junk”
“We clutch in the dark—strangers, lovers, babies. All hungry.”
Chelsea Covington Maass, “Refuge”
“If I were a cleaner in Japan.”
Cathy Ulrich, “The Scent of Kodokushi”
David Mohan, “Walking in the City at Noon”
Fiction
“God has a really ironic sense of humor sometimes, doesn’t He.”
Daniella Levy, “Shattered Glass”
J. Lee Strickland, “The Turning of Pesh Thanat”
Maryah Converse, “Trusting Sayf”
George August Meier, “Speeding, Vodka, Malcolm, and Rich”
Visual Arts
Rebecca Marino, “The Best Available Evidence”
David O’ Brien, “In the Garden of Externalities”
Samantha Parker Salazar, “Carnage Garden”