Reckoning 8

Reckoning 8, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM, engages with the essential toil, struggle, pain, triumph, loss, and persistence of resisting the patriarchofascist, corporate-captured extractive state. May these words and images grant us solace and strength for another year.

Ebook release: January 8, 2024

e-ISBN 978-1-955360-10-4

Contents

Art

Breaking Points – Martins Deep

sunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day

Pearls of Wisdom – Kirsty Greenwood

Shelton Johnson Calls – Amuri Morris

Poetry

sunday in atlanta – Kelsey Day

Tisha b’Av – Esther Alter

Wade – Olumide Manuel

A Chanterelle Empress & Porcini Prince at the Precipice of the World – Chanlee Luu

Riis Beach – Dina Abdulhadi

Climate Injustice – Lovely Raju

Climate Crisis in My (Un)known Dream – Lovely Raju

Civil Disobedients – Joanna Streetly

50% off Venus Fly Traps – Kelsey Day

fear of pipes and shallow water – William O. Balmer

Data, Land, Scape – Koby Omansky

That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

Fiction

The Battle for Florida – David Holloway

In the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old – Sage Tyrtle

Still Life – James Cato

A Shape that Has No Name – Monica Wendel

The Donor – Bernie Jean Schiebeling

A Move to a New Country – Dan Musgrave

Where the Water Came From – Jeff Hewitt

Within the Seed Lives the Fruit – Leah Andelsmith

One with the Ground – Guillermo G. Mendoza

Una con el suelo – Guillermo G. Mendoza

It’s in the Blood – Susan Kaye Quinn

Fixing the System in Tilt Town – Kat Murray

The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest – Ellis Nye

Nonfiction

Editor’s Note – Waverly SM

Editor’s Note – Knar Gavin

The X That Means Both Death and Hope – Ariadne Starling