Assistant Editor Blessing Christopher: Today’s miCRo reimagines a cautionary tale as something more wholesome. There are no villains in this story, but it should not be read as an attempt to launder the wolf’s image. The story identifies the wolf’s appetite in the original Charles Perrault fairy tale as a source of strife, and although …
Alice and her father’s second wife are going to the museum. When the second wife stoops to kiss Alice’s little brothers goodbye, Alice can see all the way up her skirt. They are going to the museum so that Alice’s dad can get some quiet time. All morning, he’s made hushed phone calls in the …
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Associate Editor Andy Sia: Shikhandin’s haunting story pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to. Clothing—a metonymy for inheritance—is a spectral presence in the piece, constellating around the body, cinching, draping, slipping. Amid the maw of loss, the piece crescendos toward the end in a …
Depending on the situation and people involved, this outside world may or may not crash like terse waves into said Self, transgressing a felt sense of sovereignty, wholeness, intactness, a concept which is intangible yet real . . . very real.
Sarah Chin’s story navigates the sticky terrain of grief.
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