In this all-fiction issue, Melissa Llanes Brownlee considers marine and family life in a triptych beginning with “tako poke.” A boy moves through the wake of his mother’s death in Fred Arroyo’s “Crow Bar.” And a loving son tries to protect his mother in Lisa Warternberg Vélez’s “Tequendama Falls, or The Encroachment of Old Catastrophes.”

Featured art: Édouard Molinaro

Stills from Witness in the City (1959), directed by Éduard Molinaro. The screenplay was written by Boileau-Narcejac,  the pen name used by  Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908 – 7 June 1998).

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