Asclepius’s Serpent Word Count: 1,806 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon Questions from the beginning of it all, from Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief. – With HARD TO EXPLAIN artwork by DRITON SELMANI
POV: you are writing a piece of speculative fiction about what you’d say in ten years about the loss you are experiencing now. Word Count: 1,753 by Ariadna García Llorente Theoretical fiction on the analytics of mourning. – With THE BEST BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS artwork by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ
” ” Word Count: 1,514 by Warren Bronson A reflection on the bureaucratic opacity of the parole process in the US criminal justice system—as seen from within.
Myopic and Porous, I Reach Out to You Word Count: 1,195 by Rieko Whitfield On loss of life and sight, feeling, and embodiment, before the pandemic and after. – with images from REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT II & III)
https://vimeo.com/448898042 ANTHROPOCENE CROSSING Word Count: 2,194 by Xin Wang Finding solace in the virtual forests of the video game ‘Animal Crossing.’ – With GALAXY a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
THE DEATH OF A STAR Word Count: 4,875 by Sokol Ferizi From the felt experience of the Kosovo War, to an exploration of the experience of disaster through the sight of an eclipse’s corona. – With MONUMENT FOR LOST TIME an artwork by LARISSA SANSOUR & SØREN LIND
Unveiling the Collective in Isolation: Thinking the Apocalypse with D. H. Lawrence Word Count: 3,989 by Matt Colquhoun An evocation of the potentials for a collective response to apocalyptic murmurs that defies the biblical division between the saved, and the damned. – With ESCAPE photography by TATIANA BONDAREVA
Do Androids Dream of Abroad? Word Count: 1,951 by Sokol Ferizi Connectivity, creativity, and daring to dream through the abandonment of exile. – With KINGDOM OF THE DISPOSSESSED an artwork by SADIE WEIS
Duckbutt Word Count: 4,207 by Jordan K. Casomar An essay on the battle for self-love in a violent, white-dominated world. – With ASC BEACH, OSIRIAN PROCESSES & GOD BODY artworks by CRICE
https://vimeo.com/356010544 WALKING IN THE SHADOWS Word Count: 2,358 by Marcie Rendon Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women. – With WATER a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional Word Count: 3,193 by Elizabeth Tannen On the lies that white privilege tells. – With CONQUERORS & MONSTER photographs by PAMELA COHN
FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT Word Count: 3,122 by Lora Matz One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing. – With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER artwork by KATE HOLFORD
EXILE Word Count: 4,102 by Sokol Ferizi A short story on the exile of the body, tongue, mind, and soul. – With KOSTËRRC (CH) artwork by PETRIT HALILAJ
We Don’t Make Love Here Anymore Word Count: 2,423 by Gabriela Wiener Children, commitment, and erotic encounters in a bed for three. – With TERRITORIES photographs by LEVITICUS HINDS
A Lover’s Block Word Count: 4,348 by Sokol Ferizi A meditation on the boundaries of monogamous love and friendship, and the triangular structure at the core of togetherness. – With AFTER ANNIE #2 & #9 photographs by KATE HOLFORD