Description
Palm-Sized Press delights in the strange, the sudden twists of normalcy, from the appearance of Rob McInroy’s mythic bird, to Lucy Smith’s protagonist finding plants sprouting from startling places. But this international community of voices also knew when to hold a moment tightly and reveal both the gentle and sinister. We sense Nick J’s titular rats at the edges of a darkened world, until one crawls close enough to see “its bloodstained whiskers”; after methodically following the results of a traffic collision, Jesse Sensibar pulls us into the narrator’s contemplation of the victim’s glasses, “still wrapped behind his two soft, sunburnt ears.”
With nonfiction ranging from Eve Turner’s torment by her own metaphorical device; to Mslexia production editor Françoise Harvey’s exploration of self-sabotage, drawing in imposter syndrome, then teasing out how self-sabotage can be a harder to recognize, equally damaging pattern.
Featuring artwork by Daniel Shaffer.
