Introduction to Issue Fourteen
A Note from the Editors
What does it mean to reckon with time?
Throughout Issue Fourteen, our contributors trace how time gathers quietly in stairwells and gardens, pastures and cemeteries. These stories and poems reveal how time is measured not only in hours and years, but also by glances, absences, and the enduring weight of memory.
As a verb, to reckon is about counting, but also about regard. To reckon is to linger long enough to hear the echo—tender, fractured, luminous—between what has been and what is still on its way, a call and response stretched like a bridge across moments, lifetimes, generations.
We hope Issue Fourteen offers a chance to linger and regard, to consider the intricate expanse your own reckoning with time might span.
Issue Fourteen image credits: all images featured in the issue’s table of contents were taken or provided by our contributors with the following exceptions: photo credit Leah Damgaard-Hansen for Luca D’Anselmi’s “Harrowing”; photo credit Alexander Kouzminov for Polina Kouzminova’s “The eternal return”; photo credit Mick Haupt on Unsplash for Anne Ryland’s “Portrait of My Mother: Bothy with Washing Line”; photo credit Magnus Östberg on Unsplash for Hanna Han’s “Farewell”; photo credit Erin Calabria for the issue cover.