F(r)iction #2
$15.00
Our second issue bubbles with stories that surprise and unmoor, with characters both glowing and ruinous.
F(r)iction #2’s Debut Author Feature spotlights Marie-Helene Bertino and her NPR Best Book of 2014 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, a rhythmic work hearkening back to jazz at its finest and most unpredictable. In Justin Hocking’s creative nonfiction “The Dark Arts,” magic tricks return to mundanity and destructive grief, while in Josie Sigler’s “Friendship,” two girls reach across a language barrier to turn childhood into a country all of their own. In Eric Lundgren’s short story “Clarence Portis: From Minor Writers of the Midwestern States,” a Catholic school spelling bee becomes the showdown ground for race, class, and superhuman abilities. Genre bends and enmeshes in Sean Bishop’s astronomical poetry and Pascalle Lepas’ ghostly slice-of-life comic “Wilde Life.” Add a Community Feature with Breath & Shadow—a quarterly online journal focusing on disability culture and literature—and our luminescent summer issue is sure to enthrall.
So strap on your oxygen tank and secure your helmet, but don’t forget to come up for air. The tales you find will be sure to take your breath away.
- Editor’s Note, words by D. M. Hedlund, art by Dara Cochran
- Captain Marvelous, words by Rose Hartley, art by Daniel Reneau
- Green and Blue, words by Claire Wallace, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- Cooing at the Stripes, words by Daniel Ross, art by Joshua Mowgli
- Friends Forever, words by Laura Atanacio Edington, art by Jessica Tung Chi
- Improv and Inversion: A Feature with Marie-Helene Bertino, Author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, words by Marie-Helene Bertino, Interviewed by D.M. Hedlund, art by Kelsi Jo Silva
- The Dark Arts, words by Justin Hocking, art by Dara Cochran
- Edacious, words by Ríona Judge McCormack, art by Piya Wannachaiwong
- WIFF, words by B.H. James, art by Dymond Starr Austin
- Wilde Life, words and art by Pascalle Lepas
- When Continents Collide, words by L.N. Holmes, art by Alyssa Ann Menold
- Thank You, words by David Abrams, art by Travis Mercer
- Works from Breath & Shadow, words by Chris Kuell, Sean J. Mahoney, and Tasha Raella Chemel, art by Hugh Hartigan
- Friendship, words by Josie Sigler, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- Degausser, words by Marah Herreid, art by Dara Cochran
- Sean Bishop Poetry Feature, words by Sean Bishop, art by Carly Lyn Heath
- Clarence Portis: From Minor Writers of the Midwestern States, words by Eric Lundgren, art by Joshua Mowgli
- Elsewhere, words by Roisin Kelly, art by Naiche Washburn
- Sin-Eater, words by Nick Farrant, art by Brian Demers
| Publication Date | August 15, 2015 |
| Page Count | 140 |
| Language | English |
| Cover | Full-colour with a glossy protective finish |
| Interior | Full-color illustrations throughout, with glued binding |
| Paper Stock | 128gsm matte paper |
| ISSN/ISBN | 9770238025885 02 |
| Dimensions | 10" x 7" x .25" / 25cm x 18cm x .64cm |
| Weight | 0.66lbs / 310g |
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