by m. pinchuk The following was read into the record of the Court of Inquiry by the Clerk, with the assent of the Presiding Magistrate. I verify that I am the Chief Scribe of the Capital City, and I attest to the following: On a day not unlike today, a stranger...
By Angela Smith Kirkman I have an hour to myself with my notebook, and I’m stretched out on the ottoman like a cat. A warm fall breeze flows through the lofty windows of the flat we’ve rented in Istanbul (not Constantinople). As I put the final touches on today’s...
By Dawn Gifford Sustainability is the capacity to endure. It’s about using what we need to live now, without jeopardizing the potential for people in the future to meet their needs, too. If an activity is said to be sustainable, it should be able to continue forever....
By Andrew Gifford “Earth that was could no longer sustain us, we were so many.” The film Serenity opens with a fleet of generation ships leaving a polluted, ruined Earth behind and heading for the system that’s the setting for the movie and the TV series that preceded...
By Kelli Jo Ford When Reney’s adventures through the pumpjack pulse of the oil fields grew old, she’d climb the fence, wrestle the saddle off the Paint, and place the pad upside down to dry like Pitch had shown her. She might sneak an extra handful of sweetfeed to the...
Graffiti Calculus by Mary-Sherman Willis CW Books/Word Tech Communications, 2013 92 pages ISBN978-1625490568 Review by Rose Solari I begin by admitting that I have particular interest in and admiration for the book-length poem or poetic sequence. It is not...
