$7,500 and new issue!
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Welcome to October! We kick off the month with a new issue and a fund drive milestone. new issue first: this week's story is "La Corriveau" by K. T. Bryski, and it begins like this:
Here is a most peculiar object. Come closer, take a good look. See, here it is, laid out in this museum basement. It is a battered iron cage—human-shaped. At the top, there are two bent strips to enclose the head. Down here are thicker bands to surround the rib cage, the pelvic bones. Look, here are iron rings to snap shut around the arms, the legs, the ankles, the wrists.
There are many mirrors here. Turn around. See how they reflect the cage on all sides? We are standing in a hall of cages, you and I, and no two of them are exactly alike.
Wait. There is something else I must show you. At the very edge of the table, so small that we almost missed it, there is a placard. Just a simple rectangle, beige with brown edges, and two words stamped in black.
<cite>From Québec.</cite>
And now, as they say, read on (or listen on). Elsewhere in the issue, we have a new poem by Lisa M. Bradley, and we bid a fond farewell to Renay, whose Communities column is drawing to a close. Meanwhile, this week's reviews look at books by Diane Duane and Lena Coakley, as well as the recent Legend of Tarzan film.
But if all of that isn't enough, we also have the next content from our fund drive special! We've reached $7,500, officially half way to our 2017 funding goal, and a third of the way to our overall total goal, and it means that we've published two additional poems: "Classification of Folktales" by Margaret Wack, and "swallowing the earth" by Karin Lowachee. Up next: a brilliant round-table about two novels by Manjula Padmanabhan. I'll be back when we get there, and in the meantime have a great week.
-- Niall
