Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Martins Deep, Kelsey Day, Ariadne Starling, Esther Alter, Olumide Manuel, Chanlee Luu, Dina Abdulhadi, Lovely Raju, Joanna Streetly, Kirsty Greenwood, William O. Balmer, David Holloway, Koby Omansky, Sage Tyrtle, James Cato, Monica Wendel, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Dan Musgrave, Jeff Hewitt, Leah Andelsmith, Amuri Morris, Guillermo G. Mendoza, Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, Susan Kaye Quinn, Kat Murray, and Ellis Nye.
Ebook release: January 8, 2024
e-ISBN 978-1-955360-10-4
Weightless Books
Amazon
Print release: July 2024
ISBN: 978-1-955360-11-1
Trade paper, perfect-bound. 266 pages, 53,000 words.
Online release: New content appearing weekly starting January 8, 2024; links go live in the table of contents below.
Contents
Art
Breaking Points – Martins Deep January 8, 2024
sunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day January 15, 2024
Pearls of Wisdom – Kirsty Greenwood March 18, 2024
Shelton Johnson Calls – Amuri Morris June 10, 2024
Poetry
sunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day January 15, 2024
Tisha b’Av – Esther Alter January 29, 2024
Wade – Olumide Manuel February 5, 2024
A Chanterelle Empress & Porcini Prince at the Precipice of the World – Chanlee Luu February 12, 2024
Riis Beach – Dina Abdulhadi February 19, 2024
Climate Injustice – Lovely Raju February 26, 2024
Climate Crisis in My (Un)known Dream – Lovely Raju March 4, 2024
Civil Disobedients – Joanna Streetly March 11, 2024
50% off Venus Fly Traps – Kelsey Day March 25, 2024 “Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024
fear of pipes and shallow water – William O. Balmer April 1, 2024
Data, Land, Scape – Koby Omansky April 15, 2024
That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe July 1, 2024 “…a powerful read.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024
Fiction
The Battle for Florida – David Holloway April 8, 2024 – Audio
In the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old – Sage Tyrtle April 22, 2024
Still Life – James Cato April 29, 2024
A Shape that Has No Name – Monica Wendel May 6, 2024
The Donor – Bernie Jean Schiebeling May 13, 2024 – Audio
A Move to a New Country – Dan Musgrave May 20, 2024 “The future is a place the narrator and his people will have to change to reach” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024
Where the Water Came From – Jeff Hewitt May 27, 2024 – Audio
Within the Seed Lives the Fruit – Leah Andelsmith June 3, 2024 “Leah Andelsmith’s story about a Black family of farmers is a kaleidoscope of emotions. […] It’s bittersweet, mournful, hopeful, and wondrous all at once.” —Alex Brown, Reactor – Finalist for the 2025 WSFA Small Press Award!
One with the Ground – Guillermo G. Mendoza June 17, 2024
Una con el suelo – Guillermo G. Mendoza June 24, 2024
It’s in the Blood – Susan Kaye Quinn July 8, 2024
Fixing the System in Tilt Town – Kat Murray July 15, 2024
The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest – Ellis Nye July 22, 2024 Audio
Nonfiction
Editor’s Note – Waverly SM January 8, 2024
Editor’s Note – Knar Gavin January 8, 2024
The X That Means Both Death and Hope – Ariadne Starling January 22, 2024