The Fissured Tongue Series
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to Inverted Syntax’s Fissured Tongue Volume Four.
This issue was years in the making, in every sense of the term. It features pieces we received years ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as more recent work, submitted only in the last six months. The timelines within the works themselves range from a lifetime — see Exhibitionist: The Life of Julie Cotton by Michaela Anchan — to frozen moments in an iconic restaurant — see the landscape of waffle house by E.A. Midnight.
And all throughout, our contributors navigate recurring narratives of playfulness and creativity, loss and longing, of violences small and large — real and imagined; works built to bridge the understandings that we all strive to come to within our own and shared mythologies, the stories and realities that we create and co-create.
Surrealist dreamscapes sit comfortably alongside quiet revelations — or the lack thereof — while chaotic emotions and fanciful inventions bubble over and reincarnate into entirely new creations that ignite the imagination and imbue a sense of burgeoning wonder.
It's a familiar place — we've traveled these landscapes in our own dreams and memories. We drank the citrus juice with our sticky hands and smelled death in the back alley. And still we persist.
These writers and artists give so much. Take your time and sit down with them; cozy up with your own blend of citrus tea. Leave a piece and return to it later, scroll back midway through to re-read the title.
Remain open to the discovery, whether it's a new way to assemble or a read a page or a new book to add to your Goodreads shelf. Bon voyage. Enjoy the journey.
Until next time,
Yesica Mirambeaux
Managing Editor
Inverted Syntax
December 2022
Welcome to Inverted Syntax’s Fissured Tongue Volume Four.
This issue was years in the making, in every sense of the term. It features pieces we received years ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as more recent work, submitted only in the last six months. The timelines within the works themselves range from a lifetime — see Exhibitionist: The Life of Julie Cotton by Michaela Anchan — to frozen moments in an iconic restaurant — see the landscape of waffle house by E.A. Midnight.
And all throughout, our contributors navigate recurring narratives of playfulness and creativity, loss and longing, of violences small and large — real and imagined; works built to bridge the understandings that we all strive to come to within our own and shared mythologies, the stories and realities that we create and co-create.
Surrealist dreamscapes sit comfortably alongside quiet revelations — or the lack thereof — while chaotic emotions and fanciful inventions bubble over and reincarnate into entirely new creations that ignite the imagination and imbue a sense of burgeoning wonder.
It's a familiar place — we've traveled these landscapes in our own dreams and memories. We drank the citrus juice with our sticky hands and smelled death in the back alley. And still we persist.
These writers and artists give so much. Take your time and sit down with them; cozy up with your own blend of citrus tea. Leave a piece and return to it later, scroll back midway through to re-read the title.
Remain open to the discovery, whether it's a new way to assemble or a read a page or a new book to add to your Goodreads shelf. Bon voyage. Enjoy the journey.
Until next time,
Yesica Mirambeaux
Managing Editor
Inverted Syntax
December 2022
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