Reckoning 8, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM, engages with the essential toil, struggle, pain, triumph, loss, and persistence of resisting the patriarchofascist, corporate-captured extractive state. May these words and images grant us solace and strength for another year.
Contents
Art
Breaking Points – Martins Deepsunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day Pearls of Wisdom – Kirsty Greenwood Shelton Johnson Calls – Amuri Morris
Poetry
sunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day Tisha b’Av – Esther Alter Wade – Olumide Manuel A Chanterelle Empress & Porcini Prince at the Precipice of the World – Chanlee Luu Riis Beach – Dina Abdulhadi Climate Injustice – Lovely Raju Climate Crisis in My (Un)known Dream – Lovely Raju Civil Disobedients – Joanna Streetly50% off Venus Fly Traps – Kelsey Dayfear of pipes and shallow water – William O. Balmer Data, Land, Scape – Koby Omansky That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Fiction
The Battle for Florida – David Holloway In the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old – Sage Tyrtle Still Life – James Cato A Shape that Has No Name – Monica Wendel The Donor – Bernie Jean Schiebeling A Move to a New Country – Dan Musgrave Where the Water Came From – Jeff Hewitt Within the Seed Lives the Fruit – Leah Andelsmith One with the Ground – Guillermo G. Mendoza Una con el suelo – Guillermo G. Mendoza It’s in the Blood – Susan Kaye Quinn Fixing the System in Tilt Town – Kat Murray The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest – Ellis Nye
Nonfiction
Editor’s Note – Waverly SMEditor’s Note – Knar Gavin The X That Means Both Death and Hope – Ariadne Starling