Rhythm and Bones Magazine Issue 4
Several pieces in this had really great titles. Really great titles. But the title is not the entirety of the piece. Here are a few things I especially enjoyed, good title or not.
Cupcakes by Piyali Roy Bhowmick, a story about baking and love affairs, and how they end and dealing with unreliable cooling in tropical climates. A romantic look at ex-pat/colonial life which inevitably has a dark sting in the tail.
Nest, by Kristin Ryan, a very short poem about blame and wasps that is not much longer that this paragraph so it would be more efficient for you to read it than this.
How To Suffocate A Shark by L N Holmes, a story about death and drowning and car crashes that actually does include details on how to suffocate a shark (though it's a little impractical unless you have a pod of killer whales to hand). Dark and claustrophobic.
Being The Murdered Mother by Cathy Ulrich, another story about death, but also about girlfriends and single parents and the expectations put on you by those no longer with us. With brief snapshots of teenage life in other people’s houses.
The Word Witch by Bayveen O'Connell is a brutal and aggressive description of being in love with words and writing that isn't quite my experience, but damn this spoke to me anyway. Also: Book Shops.
Bone Deep by Scarlett R Algee is a genuinely strange and horrific story about changing and growing. As someone who grew quite tall very quickly so was uncomfortable in my skin for a while, I felt this one. I mean not as much as the protagonist here. But still.
Also several other good ones if you look at the rest of the issue which can be found at the link.
(This issue was published in April; I would apologise for my reviewing and blogging backlog but words don't have to burn brightly for one night and vanish in the dawn, you can still enjoy this four months later, really.)
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