The Future Fire #49: Poetry Special

by Djibril al-Ayad (Editor), Victoria Feistner, Petra Kuppers

In this issue we present eleven short pieces of speculative fiction, either poetry or flash fiction/prose poems, that push the boundaries of genre a bit further than we do usually. It’s hard to trace a single theme between these tremendously diverse pieces, although feminism and other activisms loom large, as you’ll have come to expect. There are pieces that revolve around love—the love that leads to and nourishes resistance, the love that fortifies and motivates us for survival, the love that persists in the face of monstrosity and decrepitude, love of self and love of family. There is also a strong thread of home in this issue: the home as place of that we escape from, home that we protect or keep others out of, home that we recognize the poverty of, that we maintain and fight for. The activism, the resistance, the passion echoes through every poem or flash story.

36 pages, ebook

Published May 1, 2019