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Dayna Mahannah
Dispatches

The Academy of Profound Oddities

Dayna Mahannah

The fish is a suspended phantom, its magenta skeleton an exquisite, vibrant exhibit of what lies beneath

Kris Rothstein
Intelligence Girls

Review of "Censorettes" by Elizabeth Bales Frank.

Patty Osborne
From Russia With Love

Review of "Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea" by Teffi (trans. Robert Chandler).

Helen Godolphin
ON Piracy (And petrified oranges)

Review of "Our Flag Means Death" created by David Jenkins on HBO Max.

JILL MANDRAKE
ONCE A PUNK BAND, ALWAYS A CULTURE BEARER

Review of No Fun (the band) and reissued music by Atomic Werewolf Records.

Joseph Weiss
An Anti-war Godzilla

Review of "Godzilla Minus One" directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

Michael Hayward
Songs of battle

Review of "Canzone di Guerra: New Battle Songs" by Daša Drndić, trans. by Celia Hawkesworth.

KELSEA O'CONNOR
Pride and prejudice meets Diana Wynne Jones

Review of "The Midnight Bargain" by C.L. Polk

Anson Ching
the universal human

Review of "The Invention of the Other" directed by Bruno Jorge (2022).

fiction

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Toby Sharpe

Satellite

Toby Sharpe

I don’t know where a person can go when they disappear, apart from underwater.

Angélique Lalonde
Short Stories
Lady with the Big Head Chronicle

I am wholly unimportant—just a witness to her shapeshifting, possessed of a voice that can be compelled into song by the land’s unfolding

David Huebert
The Business of Salvation

I watch the lights slip and slur on the headpond and think down, toward the dam, the embankment and the long drop of the spillway where the water rests, whirled and stunned

CHARLES BROWN
Things That Scatter

Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

Spencer Lucas Oakes
Bloom of Youth

You can keep going, the moon said, if you want to.

DAVID CLERSON
City Within

The rooms I imagined repeating endlessly, with me at the centre.

K'ARI FISHER
Don't Worry, Leonardo Has a Plan

Being a warrior princess is a lot like being an archetype of human potential.

BERNICE WICK
Teleportation Blues

“It's often triggered by group settings. Especially groups laughing.”

Susie Taylor
Short Stories
Do You Know Who I Am B’y?

Go to bed. Lock the door. Don’t open it for anyone.

poetry

Sarah Wolfson
Poetry

The Gravedigger

Sarah Wolfson

"... I remembered / the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. / We'd just lived through the big thing ..."

Em Dial
Emetophobia

bonding our sneakers / together through a fluid / no longer hers but shared

EVELYN LAU
End Times

Distance blurred detail, so all that was visible / in the mysterious vapour were armloads of sparkle / he hauled as if from the sea

JADE WALLACE
Drinking Game with Ghosts

I have never been hit by a car / that I could not see coming.

Jane Shi
Knot after knot of tomorrow

Two poems by Jane Shi

Owen Torrey
Short Talk on Summer Ending

... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...

Molly Cross-Blanchard
Here's the thing

"... Blood dripped down my chin. The light / left. After, I googled what it all meant—death, / capitalism, Steffie’s stuffed bunny ..."

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
A Love Poem, Also a Physics Poem

"... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ..."

EVELYN LAU
Dull Emergency

"...vocabularies / reduced to virus, vaccine, variants— / that dull emergency of the daily count."

photography

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Zinnia Naqvi
Dear Nani

Gender performance and colonial mimicry through the family archive

Leanne Dunic
On Lake Saiko

At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

TANVI BHATIA
Close Range

The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

MICHEL HUNEAULT
With a View

Border photography along the 49th parallel.

SYLVIA TRAN
To Belong

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

CHRISTINE HAGEMOEN
Latency

Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

Michał Kozłowski
Synchronicity

30 years of Fabrice Strippoli’s photographs.

JONAH SAMSON
Yes Yes We're Magicians

A selection of sourced images from Jonah Samson's book, "Yes Yes We're Magicians," the title of which is taken from a passage of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, "Waiting for Godot."

comics

Luca Cara Seccafien
Comics

She Came In Through the Window

Luca Cara Seccafien

After the neighbour moved to Europe, Lumpy moved in full time.

Eleanor Panno
The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

Emily Chou
My Dad's Brother

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Debra Rooney
Weird Jobs

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?

ALEXANDER FORBES, KRIS BERTIN
Cursed Hermit

Don't mess with Madame Larmer's mojo.

Nicola Winstanley
Wall Spirits

Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.

Eve Corbel
Greeting Cards for Tiny Occasions

Eve Corbel creates a set of greeting cards to celebrate life's best and worst mundane moments.

Alison McCreesh
Tuque, Socks and Nothing Else

Alison McCreesh encounters snow in May, a bemused gas station attendant and a dumpster to cook behind on a trip across Canada.

Eve Corbel
Guide to Literary Footwear

Espadrille, paduka, chopine—Eve Corbel illustrates a guide for readers on some of the fanciest footwear found in literature.