Notes & Dispatches from ADRIAN RAIN, HOLLIE ADAMS and KATHY PAGE; New fiction by PAUL DHILLON; Feature essay from EMILY LU; Comics by ONJANA YAWNGHWE and YOKO OJI KIKUCHI; Poetry by NOFEL; Winners of the 2023 PolterGeist Writing Contest, and much more!
"Post-Mating Rituals" by DEEPA RAJAGOPALAN
"Coming Home" by KISHA SUPERNANT
"Even Laura Dern Can't Coax the Scream from my Throat" by DINA DEL BUCCHIA
Cover art by ALLISON CHOW
More artists in this issue: MAX AMMO, NATT CANN, TARRALIK DUFFY, TREY FLOZ, LUKE PAINTER, JUSTINE WONG, LAN "FLORENCE" YEE
… and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!
FEATURES
"Severance" by Paul Dhillon
PolterGeist Lit: Winners of the 2023 inaugural PolterGeist Writing Contest
"Long Lost Lido" by Onjana Yawnghwe
"Love Song for Mosquito" by Emily Lu
NOTES & DISPATCHES
"Schrödinger's Kids" by Adrian Rain
"In Arabic" by Nofel
"A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths" by Hollie Adams
"The Exquisite Cyclops" by Kathy Page
"Yoko's Adventures in Vancouver" by Yoko Oji Kikuchi
FINDINGS
"Post-Mating Rituals" by Deepa Rajagopalan
"Bleeding Through My Jeans at The Bonavista Foodland" by Allie Duff
"Coming Home" by Kisha Supernant
"Even Laura Dern Can't Coax the Scream from My Throat" by Dina Del Bucchia
"Slurpees, Ding Dongs & Other Feel-Good Hits" by Shawna Lemay
"Love Room" by Miranda Pearson
"The High Femme and the Search for Symbols" by Allyson McOuat
"Monuments and Memories" by Stephen Osborne
"Winnipeg Poem" by Chimwemwe Undi
ENDNOTES
"Rearrangements" (The New Yorker, December 2023) by Natan Last, reviewed by Meandricus
Cabin Fever by Anik See, reviewed by Micheal Hayward
Big Mall: Shopping for Meaning by Kate Black, reviewed by Kendra Heinz
The Adversary by Michael Crummey, reviewed by Anson Ching
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, directed by Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg, reviewed by Helen Godolphin
The Hangman: The True Story of Canada's First Executioner by Julie Burtinshaw, reviewed by Maryanna Gabriel
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones, reviewed by Cornelia Mars
Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith, reviewed by Peggy Thompson
Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest by Collin Varner, reviewed by Kelsea O'Connor
The Boy and the Heron, produced by Studio Ghibli, reviewed by Jonathan Heggen
On Community by Casey Plett, reviewed by Kristina Rothstein
Conversations with Khatsahlano, 1932—1954, reprinted by Massy Books / Talonbooks, reviewed by Michael Hayward
AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!