EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR: EMILY JIANG PRODUCER, DIRECTOR: BRIAN DOOM EDITOR: LENA BROOKS ON-SITE SINGERS: CATHLEEN KALCIC (SOLOIST), BARBARA SAXTON, ANNA CHASE, CIARA KARSKI, EITHNE PARDINI, YITING JIN TELEPRESENCE SINGERS: ARKADY MARTINE (SOLOIST), MARI NESS, TEDDY BUCHANAN, MIKE SWIRSKY, ALYC…
“I’ll never understand why some people go out of their way to kiss death,” Violet said, the second night I knew her. As she spoke, the presence of the Emerald Coat in the museum behind us crawled down my neck.…
“I mean to survive” –Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower At the heart of Octavia Butler’s Survivor (1979) lies a forgettable rape scene: He covered me with the thick, very soft blanket of his fur and hurt me as…
Penny Stirling used to be stone but now she is flesh, words and embroidery stitches. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Lackington’s, Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Heiresses of Russ 2014, and others. Find her at http://www.pennystirling.com/ and…
The exorcism has failed. Dead Khonen in his bridegroom’s stainless kitl lifts white-gowned Leye into his arms, into the golden ghost-light, two halves of one neshome as dark-haired and slender in embrace as twins or a trick with mirrors, their…
Singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt is the leader of the band the Magnetic Fields, as well as three offshoot bands: the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and the Gothic Archies. He has also written music for theater and film, including a collaboration with…
“A hysterical girl is a vampire who sucks the blood of the healthy people about her.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes The first time the fit came over me it was as if I’d plunged into a deep well, and…
Spotlight 1 In 1988, Gallaudet University elected another hearing president. The students of Gallaudet believed that the time had come for a deaf person to run the university for the deaf and hard of hearing—they created the Deaf President Now protest…
Rain and rain and rain and the familiar sight of rural Rajasthan seemed almost foreign with its green stillness reminding me of my train ride to Prague from Berlin where nothing happened except silence, …
To evoke the first place I lived, I try to remember the first adult words I understood, the scrambled way toys and furniture were as important as people, the terrors that came with the dark. Those things stay with you…
