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From the Editors

Welcome to the third issue of Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts, an extension of the Interfictions anthology series published in conjunction between the Interstitial Arts Foundation and Small Beer Press. As writers and editors with one foot in the academic world and…

What is Lost

Su-Yee Lin

I.  Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The bear stumbles around the clearing, growling and trying to shake off the man clinging to his back. It had all started out as a prank. But he had fallen into the pen, enraged…

Tainted Margins I

Saudamini Deo

Years ago, a woman stood in front of me and read out Manto. Siyah Hashiye shouldn’t be translated as Black Borders, she said. Tainted Margins. Another woman, years later, looked plainly at me and asked if people still slept on…

Leftment

Matt Jones

QuoVadis met the light at seventeen after rolling his truck into a drainage ditch. Shards of teeth and chipped glass scattered around him, all soaking up the same amount of light. The pull of beer through his veins and leak…

To Hold the Mirror

Kat Howard

“It seems alive.” These words, uttered in a tone of awe, were the ones most often said when someone saw her work. But the automatist knew that what she did was a counterfeit of life, not a creation of it.…

The Etiquette

S. Craig Renfroe Jr.

There are seventeen parties a year. This is number fifteen. There are two left. There are seventeen parties a year. And there are only two left. You’ve gone to fifteen parties, and no one has talked to you. Except for…