Prose by Elaine Nichols Art by Keira Innes Florian saw the boy, who was supposed to have already left, just as he was about to pass from the suburban area into the main part of town on the way to his cousin’s. He was sitting on the low wall outside the run-down, leaf-covered play park
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Nowhere Man
Prose by Elaine Nichols Art by Monica Feng He’d have asked her to lunch sometime if she hadn’t walked into the food court and queued up in front of the char siu fan place perhaps ten metres in front of his table, pretending not to see him, whilst he coughed into his ramen in a
Monstrous Liminality: The Threat of the Indeterminate Vampire in Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Essay by Natalia Mohar Art by Alex Hoang Monstrosity can be defined as “[s]omething repulsively unnatural, an abomination; a thing which is outrageously or offensively wrong” (OED, monstrosity 2a), but how does something come to be considered so abnormal and wrong as to become monstrous? Jack Halberstam claims that “[t]he monster functions as a monster
Iphis on E
Prose by Hawthorne Nyberg Art by Nicole Ma (A Bending of the Metamorphoses after Ali Smith) I. Iphis woke late Wednesday, cast her eye around for her glasses, found them on the floor between the nightstand and the Durex box, laid back down. Bed was a tangle of blanket, legs, a discarded sweater scrawled over
The Great Long Crawl Towards Wormwood
Poetry by Samantha Chan Art by Brian Lee As kids we all used to kneel around snails and ants and worms. We rummaged in school bags for bottle caps, mini smarties boxes, pencil cases–– any little container to collect little creatures, because while the concrete prickled our already scabby knees, a thing being alive was
A Haibun for June
Poetry by Millicent Sharman Art by Maxine Gray In the freshly felt air there is a weight of warm humidity, thicker than the tiredness, thinner than the lifelong string holding us four together. I see everything in orange: the ice cream in the airport vending machine; the fifty-yen coin pinched between my fingers; time, though
The Intricacies of Indian Experience: A Survey of Post-Colonial Commentary through Transpositional Adaptation in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice
Essay by Sim Deol Art by Margaret Xun In her Bollywood-inspired Austen adaptation, Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice reveals that even the most English of narratives can be transformed in order to celebrate cultures that have been affected by British colonization. Austen’s original text, Pride and Prejudice, is deeply entrenched in a colonial context, even
The Feeble Feminine: Cleopatra’s Transformation into a Passive Woman and the Defense of Louise de Kérouaille in John Dryden’s All for Love
Essay by Sim Deol Art by Adri Marcano Cleopatra has come to be a figure often regarded in popular culture as beautiful, intelligent, and above all, powerful. This understanding of her character is consistent with her representation in Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. On the other hand, Dryden’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s narrative, All for Love,
Traversing the Temporal and Celestial Realms: Parentheses as a Device in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Essay by Nicole Sobolewski Art by Paula Mohar Crafting a religious narrative while accurately capturing its complexity in regards to time and space can be a difficult endeavour. How does a writer articulate the depth of the Christian God in a manner that is understandable for humans and aligns with earthly understandings of temporality? In