In this issue, Rebecca Thomas presents a family attempting to address conflicts that linger, pester, and force each character to reexamine expectations in “Root Bound.”
E.C. Salibian muses about love of all kinds in her aptly-titled essay, “Childhood Pets: A Treatise on Untimely Death.”
And Christine Butterworth-McDermott practices her magic in three poems beginning with “Spell for Attraction, Containing Belladonna.” These poems are excerpted from Butterworth-McDermott’s forthcoming collection, The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers, which will be published by Fomite in January 2023.
This issue features photographs by Bryan Buckley, a photographer and metal fabricator in Massachusetts.