All Your Children, Scattered – Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Underneath the narrative of three broken generations simmers the horrific damage of colonialism, both by the French and Belgian people, by racism, and lastly, and perhaps most confusingly, by fatherlessness.
The artist and narrator of The Logos has a gift for capturing the acute essence of his subjects.
In effect, Solenoid imagines a world in which Gregor Samsa wakes up to find that he is still a human being after all, and this is somehow worse.
This practice of pharmacy, fundamentally, writing about that in a fictional way brings it into the realm of science fiction. Or it can, very easily. Yet I feel far more connected to literary fiction.
or, on being the other woman – Simone White
White looks for a way out of herself, beyond the confines of her body, and the systems of oppression meant to control her.
In the Black Fantastic – ed. Ekow Eshun
Even surging past the final frontier, the Black fantastic remains aware of the constraints it aims to explode.
“Within Spitting Distance of the Exit”
Some people will go to the ends of the earth for closure, while others maintain until their last, hypertensive breath that it doesn’t exist.
Normal, Regular, and Rich: Charlie Markbreiter’s Gossip Girl Fan Novella
What becomes clear over the course of Gossip Girl Fan Novella is that no one has a very good grasp on what constitutes “normalcy” or “real life.”
My sincere hope is that someone will read this and invite me to do some sublimely goofy shit with them.
Other People’s Beds – Anna Punsoda
Reading difficult work [is] an act of reconnaissance: scoping out different containers into which we can imagine pouring our otherwise formless and messy thoughts, memories, and observations.