Category: Reckoning 8

Podcast Episode 47: It’s in the Blood

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Aaron: Whenever and wherever you are, get hydrated and get hopeful, because it’s the Reckoning Press Podcast! I’m Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to bring you another episode. Hope you’re having a good one, because today we have “It’s In the Blood” from Reckoning 8, written by Susan . . .

Fixing the System in Tilt Town

When I was little, my parents died trying to reach Lady Luck. My brother Maynard says the journey was hard back then. These days, it’s easier for people to worship at her feet.

What she demands as sacrifice isn’t so straightforward.

“There’s nothing for him in this town.” Maynard’s voice is bitter as he watches Clay skip off to school on his ninth birthday. My nephew . . .

The X That Means Both Death and Hope

This story begins and ends with the X that means both death and hope.

Three Xs, two strikes, one message: Solidarity.

 

26 November, 2017.

 

The Australian government would prefer that we forget this crime against humanity, this X in flesh in the air.

It’s a humid, sweaty, overcast day at a protest at Federation Square in the centre of Melbourne. Shen Narayanasamy . . .

That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’

Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners

after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it.

Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire village’s herd destroyed

in an instant? Of course not. The behemoth was eight feet tall & breathed fire.

It’s body was made of metal and painted black. The behemoth destroyed . . .

The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest

It is with sorrow that this paper announces the passing of one of our town’s greatest treasures, Wendy “Darling” Marszałek. She died on August 18th, 2081, in her early eighties. Contrary to her frequent predictions, she did not die “crushed under a pile of old tech”; she went peacefully, in her sleep, at her home here in Adden, MO, just a few miles from where she . . .

Pushcart Nominations 2024

Our Pushcart nominations for 2024 are in! At the very last possible second, as is fast becoming tradition here.

In 2024, we published Reckoning 8, our resistance issue, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM. No editor should ever be forced to single out for praise a mere six of the many beautiful and compelling pieces of writing they’ve had the privilege to . . .

Podcast Episode 37: The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest

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We’re here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, Reckoning’s new audio editor, the reader and producer for today’s story. How’s it going, everyone? This time we have Ellis Nye’s “The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest” as featured in Reckoning . . .

Podcast Episode 36: A Shape that Has No Name

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Aaron: You’re listening to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, editor for Reckoning’s audio in general and this story in particular. Glad to be recording another one of these! Today, listeners, we have Monica Wendel’s “A Shape that Has No Name” from Reckoning 8. In this . . .

Podcast Episode 33: Where the Water Came From

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It’s time for the Reckoning Press podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, Reckoning’s new audio editor, once again reading and producing for today’s story. Hello, everyone. Today, we have Jeff Hewitt’s “Where the Water Came From”, as featured in Reckoning 8. This is a story about distance. From culture, . . .