Dear reader,
Welcome to Issue 109! This issue was a long time in the making, but we think you’ll agree the wait has been well worth it. And while times are no less uncertain now than they were when your Twitter feed filled with tweets making fun of that phrase, we at The Rupture will be returning to our usual publication schedule with the publication of this issue, meaning you should expect our next issue, Issue 110, in December, and Issue 111 in February, and so on. We should even have some exciting announcements for you in December.
In the meantime, there is all of Issue 109 to explore. You might want to make your first stop the special nonfiction portfolio guest-edited by Greg Gerke and featuring new work by Genese Grill, Alexander Theroux, Curtis White, and John Haskell, but this issue also has new fiction by Kellie Wells, JoAnna Novak, Michael Jeffrey Lee, Ben Segal, Gary Fincke, and Jessica N. A. Berger, poetry from Caleb Curtiss, Steve Barbaro, Hari B Khalsa, Dargie Anderson, Scott Beal, and Seth Brady Tucker, and reviews from John Kazanjian (Mary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten), Jeffrey Condran (Curtis Smith’s The Magpie’s Return), Anne Graue (David Graham’s The Honey of Earth), Z. L. Nickels (Victoria Chang’s Obit), Ian Munnelly (Alden Jones’s The Wanting Was a Wilderness), and Jennifer Lang (Patrick Madden’s Disparates).
Ghosts, treachery, apparitions, illusions, and memories and perceptions alternately faithful and deceiving are all here, and that seems appropriate not simply because of the season but, well, you know.
Thanks so much for reading!
Sincerely,
Gabriel Blackwell