“We will sing louder. We sing to be heard, but also to say we hear you. We have not and we will not forget you.”
—Abbie Goldberg, “How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery”
“Reckoning stories always get my resistance engine going” —Alex Brown, Reactor
Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Dante Luiz, Abbie Goldberg, Diem Okoye, Mário Coelho, William Woolfitt, Talitha May, Íde Hennessy, Sofia Ezdina, E. L. Mellor, Purbasha Roy, Aden Albert, Lee Nash, Maud Powell, Holly Lyn Walrath, E.M. Linden, Solomon T. Hamza, Abi Stevens, Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis, Offor Chidera, A.P. Golub, Ellen K. Fee, Siobhon Rumurang, Allison Whittenberg, Bethany Fine, Jacqueline St.Pierre, Leah Bobet, S.L. Harris, Christian Lozada, Jacob Coffin, EC Dorgan, D. Arifah, L. McKnight, Jacqueline Roberti, August Cao, and T.K. Rex.
Ebook release: January 6, 2025
e-ISBN 978-1-955360-12-8
Weightless Books
Amazon
Print release: July 2025
ISBN 978-1-955360-13-5
Trade paper, perfect bound. 220 pages, 45,000 words.
Online release: New content appearing weekly starting January 6, 2025; links go live in the table of contents below.
Contents
Cover: Open Chest – Dante Luiz January 6, 2025
From the Editors: Grief – C.G. Aubrey January 6, 2025
From the Editors: Resistance – Priya Chand January 6, 2025
From the Editors: Persistence – Catherine Rockwood January 6, 2025
How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery – Essay – Abbie Goldberg January 13, 2025
Rebellion – Poetry – Diem Okoye January 20, 2025
We Will Not Dream of Corals – Fiction – Mário Coelho January 27, 2025 “[T]his story felt like perfect timing with the current state of the world.” —Alex Brown, Reactor
Turquoise Circles – Poetry – William Woolfitt February 3, 2025
Forfeit 280 – Art – Talitha May February 10, 2025
The Piano Player Has Eight Arms – Fiction – Íde Hennessy February 17, 2025
Poplar – Poetry – Sofia Ezdina February 24, 2025
Blue Speck – Fiction – E. L. Mellor March 3, 2025 “[U]nsettling but ultimately triumphant” —Charles Payseur, Locus
Dedicated Traffic Police – Essay – Purbasha Roy March 10, 2025
They tried to tell you, 20000BCE – present – Art – Aden Albert March 17, 2025
Guarda Silencio – Poetry – Lee Nash March 24, 2025
Harvesting Grief – Essay – Maud Powell March 31, 2025
Track Four: Cumberland Gap – Poetry – William Woolfitt April 7, 2025
Climate Change Is a Poem – Poetry – Holly Lyn Walrath April 14, 2025
Lesser Known Months of the Year – Fiction – E.M. Linden April 21, 2025
The Coming of Sahara – Essay – Solomon T. Hamza April 28, 2025
A Haunting in Future Perfect Tense – Essay – Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis May 5, 2025
Toxic Heron – Art – Abi Stevens May 12, 2025
The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral – Poetry – Offor Chidera May 19, 2025
A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century – Fiction – A.P. Golub May 26, 2025
baby’s breath – Poetry – Ellen K. Fee June 2, 2025
Cloud, Cloud – Essay – Siobhon Rumurang June 9, 2025
Katrina – Poetry – Allison Whittenberg June 16, 2025
Inanna and the Haruspex – Poetry – Bethany Fine June 23, 2025
We didn’t start the fire. – Essay – Jacqueline St.Pierre June 30, 2025
Biologists say it will take at least a generation for the river to recover (Klamath River hymn) – Poetry – Leah Bobet July 7, 2025
The Pelican in its Piety – Fiction – S.L. Harris July 14, 2025 “[A] biting story made sharp by … warmth and hope” —Charles Payseur, Locus
Not the Bajau Yet – Poetry – Christian Lozada July 21, 2025
Repurposed Parking Garage – Art – Jacob Coffin July 28, 2025
That Changing Prairie Light – Fiction – EC Dorgan August 4, 2025
Water Bearers – Art – D. Arifah August 11, 2025
Women Workers Right – Art – D. Arifah August 11, 2025
Before Times Shells & Gifts – Fiction – Laura McKnight August 18, 2025
New Niches – Fiction – Jacqueline Roberti August 25, 2025 “[A] wonderful read.” —Charles Payseur, Locus
Seeded, home – Poetry – August Cao September 1, 2025
To Plant an Oak in Sand – Fiction – T.K. Rex September 8, 2025