Grab a popsicle and chill out for a spell with our 113th issue. Includes a Bob Dylan concert, an unusual teacup, beach fun, stone fruit, meat-sack meditation, a ouija board, and colorful monocular felines. So, you know, all the necessary ingredients for a rockin’ summer party.
One theme that leaps out in Issue 112 is vision, both in the literal sense of sight and in the deeper sense of perception and an artist’s imagination. There are people gazing inward and peering outward, people regarding the traumas of the past and the possibilities of the future without blinking, people looking in the wrong places and seeing too much or not enough.
With this in mind, we invite you to ogle at the wonders on display. But watch out, because some of them might be staring back at you with their smokey violet eyes.
Cover art by Lucija Rasonja; poems by Ian Goh, Ashley Crout, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, and Dante Novario; stories by Marc Tweed and Davis MacMillan.
Reader, I hope this finds you in an enchanted forest, a marshmallow cloudscape, a bioluminescent cavern, or any place where you feel comfortable and safe. Please enjoy the wonders collected in our eleventy-first issue, including poems from Zackary Sholem Berger, Felicity L. Rollin, DS Maolalai, and Askold Skalsky, stories from David Stevens and Nikolaj Volgushev, and cover art by Carocta.