As ceaseless jingles play over the radio, a family drives toward yet another rental inspection. A woman, spoon held hovering over her plate, counts the macros in her microplastics. Politicians argue via 15-second video loops. Meanwhile, over on a dying planet, nostalgia is the only fuel that remains.
While the foundations of everything are shaking, Splinter follows the rising tone of laughter (or is that the wail of a siren?) to discover an escape (NB: not escapist) route via the short stories, poetry, and essays in its fifth issue, which (loosely) redefine progress for the polycrisis era.
While the foundations of everything are shaking, Splinter follows the rising tone of laughter (or is that the wail of a siren?) to discover an escape (NB: not escapist) route via the short stories, poetry, and essays in its fifth issue, which (loosely) redefine progress for the polycrisis era.
233mm x 153mm
21 writers
47,667 words
278,299 characters
1 description of a brain as “like pasta floating in a cream sauce”
Andrew Roff, Andy Jackson, Caroline Hung, Colleen Baran, Dave Drayton, Denise Sivasubramaniam, Emily Thornton, Hajer Requiq, Helena Tang, Ian Gibbins, Jack Minungka, Jo Case, Joemario Umana, Kelsey Hutton, Linda Atkins, Linda Shiers, Nicholas Jose, Patrick Eades, Rochelle Humphrey & Aunty Suzanne Haseldine, Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh, Yves Rees