Issue Four | May 2013

The Death of Love Project Julie Day

Changes for the Chateau David S. Atkinson

Kuiper Court S.E. Sever

Big Bang, Inc. Mathew Allan Garcia

The Carcassonne Dream Robert Mangeot

From the Editor:

Issue Four has arrived! And with it comes a familiar species, one found perpetually wading at the edge of the swamp, the wild and beautiful unreal coincidence. Much to our tingling delight, the coincidences have multiplied since the swamp’s inception, trading chicks and squawks for mere wampum, and allowing us to give life and name to our favorite mistake, i.e. the Inadvertent Theme. For this issue, the I.T. is not only all-encompassing, it is also derived from the remarkable coincidences that connect our stories on the deepest of levels. Though we fiddled with several possibilities (e.g. “French Madness and the Wonders of Space” and “Moons Over My Hologram”), we ultimately came to one so effortless, so deviously perfect, so brilliantly swampish that we just couldn’t pass it up. This week’s Inadvertent Theme is, simply, “Revolutions.”
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We kick ths issue off with Julie Day’s “The Death of Love Project,” a extraordinarily beautiful tale of family, dark matter, and life-threatening planetary realignment. Next comes David S. Atkinson’s “Changes for the Château,” which describes a French hotelier’s absurd, yet delightfully humorous customs and “amenities.” Next we offer S.E. Sever’s “Kuiper Court,” an ominously realistic glimpse into a future filled with holograms and strict justice. Mathew Allan Garcia’s “Big Bang, Inc.” follows that, bringing gallows humor to an apocalyptic corporation’s otherwise very serious subterranean office. And finally, we bring you Robert Mangeot’s “The Carcassonne Dream,” a couple’s quest through riots and mass hysteria to compile a sandwich of legendary proportions.

Tea for the Read: Black Pearl. There is something fundamentally dark about each of these stories, something pulled from the bottomless depths of the sea, if not from the outermost reaches of space. Like so many classic teas, they are so rich and engrossing that, in your moment of sweet indulgence, you can’t possibly fathom something better. Black Pearl, in all its greatness, borrows an idea from its big brother, black tea, and compounds it, destroying all memory of its predecessor as it generates a completely original flavor. And there, as they say, you have it. Dark, rich, original: the foundations of Black Pearl, the foundations of Issue Four. Enjoy.

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