How do you do right by your child when you feel like you're the very thing that will steer her wrong? That’s the question at the heart of my new story in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : “In the Foothills”
Handmade seed bombs! Native seeds I wild-harvested locally last fall, scraps of the brown paper @bookmobile.bsky.social ships as padding with printed books folded into little envelopes and held together with a veg ink compostable @reckoningmag.bsky.social sticker
Cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo for Reckoning: It Was Paradise, a special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, featuring a monstrous antlered head with burning red eyes and a warhead emerging from its fanged mouth.
New today from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "In the Foothills" by @rajivmote.bsky.social, a devastating, beautiful story about parenting on the run from the bombing campaign: reckoning.press/in-the-footh...
The Royal Oak Earth Day rally is today! Come see my hand-harvested invasive woodworking in person? I'm also putting together foraged local wildflower seed packets to give away, while they last
Cover art for Reckoning X by Mónica Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.
New from Reckoning X, our collectively edited 10th anniversary issue: "Once, I returned Tulip, Once I became", a poem by CP Nwankwo which does amazing things with language, rhythm, and enjambment. You'll want to spend some time with this one reckoning.press/once-i-retur...
I used to think that solar "just" threatened the political power and profits of power companies and their fossil fuel suppliers (including the fact that they use your electricity $ for climate disinformation) but it's actually even more radical than that...
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Start your day off with this gorgeous poem from CP Nwankwo in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : reckoning.press/once-i-retur...
I'm thrilled to have this in audio form! Thank you @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social for reading this so beautifully.
Y'all may recall from time of publication that I have a lot of feelings about this piece. So excited to see it get an audio version. Oil monsters, kid heroes, and no small amount of evangelical deconstruction. I read a lot of great pieces, but this one stays with me.
Good morning! As promised, a new podcast episode has dropped, featuring publisher and erstwhile host @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social reading @slharris.bsky.social's Gulf Coast oil monster story "The Pelican in its Piety" from Reckoning 9: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
When people are like, "Where is the money for X going to come from?" I'm like, the police budget. The money you are looking for is in the police budget. It's in police contracts (many of which mandate an annual increase--PVD's does) & police pensions, but it's also in things like the supply budget
Please share as widely as possible.
This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.
Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
- Dylan Thomas
Made some more book stands out of scrap and invasive wood (poplar, glossy buckthorn, white mulberry) in advance of @reckoningmag.bsky.social's appearance at the Royal Oak Earth Day fair this weekend
how irreplaceable, the first morning that which is limping walks out of its animal
vellum/ and into a springing dusk, air mellow green.
the first night when fireflies quietly weave shrouds of light around/
my chair and music is not crushed bones jangling inside you.
reckoning.press/gratefulness/
Today's poem, "Gratefulness," from It Was Paradise, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's special issue on war and the environment edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, is by B.B.P Hosmillo.
CW, intimate partner violence. If it is not harmful for you to read this staggering poem, I hope you will read it.
It is good when fascism is defeated.
Which litmags want eco themes? Appreciate your suggestions. Have a river lament & a few others to sub.
Know about @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
"Observe the tie dye pattern of the sky, the way caterpillars cling to the underside of vines."
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What a great list!
I wasn't actually prepared for how good it would feel to see a "year's best ecofiction" taking shape. We've got a whole community movement thing going
Five @reckoningmag.bsky.social pieces here. Congrats authors!
I LOVE IT WHEN THINGS ARE GROSS 💚
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tshirt, Ban the Fascists, Save the Books
It has arrived!
just a completely masterful choice to have the document of the story degrade at the same time as the narrator's circumstances. the lacunae are exponentially more upsetting than the viscera that precedes them, and trust me, the author knows how to do viscera.
i read this on the train to work and nearly missed my stop. viciously evocative, perfectly rancid, cannot recommend highly enough.
Folks submitting dystopian novellae to Reckoning's novella call might do well to give "Dr ______" a read. It's so delightfully weird in both setting and delivery, it distinguishes itself completely. Nobody's mistaking this for Zamyatin or Orwell or Huxley
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"Dr. _____ and his Thousand Children" confronts the gruesome numbers and the unquantifiable toll of what happens, to the land, the law, to what it means to be human, when powerful men's progress goes unchecked. This story isn't one to sit with, it must be grappled with, and we are better for it.
The cover art for Reckoning 9, "Open Chest" by Dante Luiz, features a Black woman seen from the lips down, smiling, with long black hair spilling over bare shoulders, wearing a lacy, off-white strapless dress, and using her hands to pull open a gaping hole in her chest from which white flowers emerge. The background is green and brown vertical striped wallpaper.
Cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo for Reckoning: It Was Paradise, a special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, featuring a monstrous antlered head with burning red eyes and a warhead emerging from its fanged mouth.
We're sending out new work from Reckoning X every Friday, and from our special issue on war and conflict, It Was Paradise, every Monday, AND next week there's a new podcast episode Wednesday of a story from Reckoning 9! A good time to sign up for our free mailing list: reckoning.press/subscribe/
Cover art for Reckoning X by Mónica Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.
New from Reckoning X, our collectively edited 10th anniversary issue themed on communication, "Dr. ______ and his Thousand Children" by J.R. Staples-Ager, a dystopian found-document story that is quite uplifting given it's among the grossest things we've published: reckoning.press/dr-_____-and...
