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Podcast Episode 41: The Air Will Catch Us | Reckoning
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome once again to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning and the reader for today's story. Hope you're having a good one. Our story today is Reckoning 7's "The Air...
on Tue, 4PM
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Lesser Known Months of the Year | Reckoning
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April was the first to go. April had always brought the snowmelt, soft rains, herbs gathered in armfuls from the alpine meadows. But that year, there were no rains, no herbs; the streets stayed slick with dirty ice. March dragged on, but couldn’t bridge the gap. It stuttered out fifteen days...
on Mon, 1PM
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Climate Change Is a Poem | Reckoning
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After Eli Clare The night we pushed the old blue Mazda through cold flood waters and bruises bloomed like bayou algae on my shoulder, neck, arms where the weight of the dead car fell after we trudged through the water, snakes, and ants to the hotel where I cried terrified not for us but
on Apr 14
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Track Four: Cumberland Gap | Reckoning
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Low rooms, poor light, cold water, figures on their knees or backs, lay down boys, gonna be trouble in Cumberland Gap. Close my eyes, try to count the conscripted fathers, husbands, sons, leased to Tennessee Coal and Iron, convict miners crowded aboard eastbound trains. Taken off at Coal Creek,...
on Apr 7
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We Will Not Dream of Corals | Reckoning
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Alone on a lonely beach, Júlia watched the Atlantic Ocean spit out the world’s richest man. Júlia knew who the man was even before the sea placed the body at her feet. She knelt before him and stared into his empty orbits and sought the corals. She saw none. “Of course,” she whispered. “They wouldn’t
on Apr 6
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“Finding meaning in grief does not mean we’re over the loss or okay with the loss; it means we can find a way to honor the love, even in our pain.” —David Kessler Streaks of wet dirt mark the floor beneath our circle of chairs—a sure sign of farmers gathering during the Oregon winter. A
on Mar 31
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They arrive in the autumn for the Day of the Dead three days of celebrations the Purépecha tossing oranges into the coffin of the grinning corpse the burning of candles overnight ofrendas hung with flowers this year two more souls Homero and Raul will join the festivity you will not pinpoint them
on Mar 24
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Podcast Episode 40: The Bright in the Gyre | Reckoning
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's time once again for the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and this story's audio producer—but our reader is Anna Pele. Today we have Nadine Aurora Tabing's...
on Mar 18
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List of Titles for Review | Reckoning
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Below is an incomplete list of books about environmental justice we'd love to see reviewed for Reckoning. Please get in touch to suggest something or to ask for a review copy? Submit a fiction review. | Submit a nonfiction review. Title Author Publisher Year Genre Origins of Desire in Orchid...
on Mar 12
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Dedicated Traffic Police | Reckoning
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It is my good fortune to have seen elephants from childhood. Many would imagine I had grown up near a sanctuary, but that wasn’t the case. We lived by an iron-ore mine, and forests surrounded every colony we lived in. The townships we lived in were made by cutting through forests and hills. The roads
on Mar 10
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SO[L.A.]RPUNK Event Thursday, March 27 | Reckoning
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Dear Reckoning Reader, The team at ARLA, in partnership with Solarpunk Magazine, Reckoning Press, and The Fabulist, would like to invite you to a special literary event to celebrate exciting new creative writing in environmental justice, climate resilience, and future-thinking. On Thursday,...
on Mar 4
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As Blue Speck scuttled through the forest, Keddi leaped over roots and rocks to follow. Fungus, she thought, when the scrabbler halted near a tree with broad leaves and turned over the greenish earth faster than a shovel. The creature stepped aside to reveal a trove of pink whorls, which she...
on Mar 3
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Podcast Episode 39: A Predatory Transience | Reckoning
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Bernie: Hello again, Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Bernie Jean Schiebeling, the reader for this episode, with Aaron Kling as producer. Today we're sharing C.G. Aubrey's "A Predatory Transience" from Reckoning 7....
on Feb 26
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The world was warm and young. Poplar fluff burned into smoke, into poplar smog. We grew up quickly; what was honey turned into copper. We saw the seam that runs in the heart of the universe. We smelled shades of stone and the scent of dreams. We sat in the rye for hours; we set
on Feb 24
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Atiador, I hope you read this. I know we did not part well. Prexim says that your lungs are bad enough to confine you to the arboretum. I hope you’re not climbing the walls like a penned animal. I suspect it is a vain hope, but it’s my hope all the same. Is it true
on Feb 21
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The Piano Player Has Eight Arms | Reckoning
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“Dramatic Exit?” the man in the gray suit asks, pointing to the stingray leather menu as I shake a cocktail longer than necessary, fingers numb from frost fuzzing up the steel. Turquoise light ripples across his face from the water above us, the sun a lazy disco ball far above the dome. Behind him, Onda
on Feb 17
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I drive four hundred miles to my grandparents’ Angus cattle farm near Nestorville, West Virginia. And walk up the knob, zenith and center of meadows they mowed, cow paths, rust-roofed sheds, silo, shrinking pond. Once, I knew how to find may apple, trillium, and jewelweed. A crow says caw caw...
on Feb 6
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The Uses of Ideology: Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto | Reckoning
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How can—or can't—ideological political movements serve us in the climate crisis? It's a question which increasingly nags while reading Kohei Saito's "degrowth communism" bestseller, originally published in Japanese as Capital in the Anthropocene (2020). In this new English translation,...
on Feb 6
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General Submission Call: Reckoning X | Reckoning
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For the milestone tenth issue of Reckoning, our sixth under fascist misrule, we're practicing what we preach. Reckoning X will be edited collectively by our entire editorial staff, and it will be themed, broadly, around communication. What brought us to this? How do those of us who grasp the...
on Feb 4
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Special Submission Call: It Was Paradise | Reckoning
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It’s time to announce the call for submissions to It Was Paradise*, a special issue of Reckoning edited by Sonia Sulaiman and with cover art by Moníca Robles Corzo. In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors. This is all out war on the planet, on life...
on Jan 23
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Reckoning 9 – Print Edition Preorder | Reckoning
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Reckoning 9, edited by C.G. Aubrey, Priya Chand, and Catherine Rockwood, is our guidebook to the ongoing global collapse. Join us, and find the tools you need to weather, persist, and resist. “We will sing louder. We sing to be heard, but also to say we hear you. We have not and we will not
on Jan 22
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Not all growth is gentle, not all bloom is a blessing. Some seeds wait on the soil for the sun. Some, buried by force, still rise. Language tangles like ivy, covers what’s been razed: a garden drawn over scarred earth, every vine tracing a line we forgot to erase. They say plants are peaceful, but
on Jan 21
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How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery | Reckoning
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“If we ever wanted to, our friend group could transition nicely into a BDSM circle,” I announce to my friend George as we stare at nearly $1,000 worth of locks and chains in a pile on the living room floor. “Is that a thing? A BDSM circle?” he asks, looking up from his project of
on Jan 18
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Reckoning at AWP 2025 in Los Angeles | Reckoning
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This coming March—the 26th through 29th, to be specific—three members of Reckoning's editorial staff, Michael, Catherine, and Andrew, will be tabling at the Association of Writers & Writers' Programs annual conference, thanks to our sponsors Advance Resilience LA. This is a first for us, and we...
on Jan 10
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Reckoning 9, edited by C.G. Aubrey, Priya Chand, and Catherine Rockwood, is our guidebook to the ongoing global collapse. Join us, and find the tools you need to weather, persist, and resist. “We will sing louder. We sing to be heard, but also to say we hear you. We have not and we will not
on Jan 6
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Pushcart Nominations 2024 | Reckoning
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Our Pushcart nominations for 2024 are in! At the very last possible second, as is fast becoming tradition here. In 2024, we published Reckoning 8, our resistance issue, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM. No editor should ever be forced to single out for praise a mere six of the many beautiful...
on Dec 3
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Review: Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future. Milkweed Editions, 2024 | Reckoning
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What it’s like. When the death of your home is someone else’s lesson learned (p. 118). These are the thoughts of Dario, who lives in a vertical city after sea-level rise claimed his childhood home and forced him to resettle. He watches, captivated, as the artist Yeong-cheol Min sculpts clay into...
on Dec 2
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Review: Hatch by Jenny Irish. Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2024 | Reckoning
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Living in the Necrocene, and being somewhat cognisant of environmental change as it happens around me, has its disadvantages. There’s a constant, low-level preoccupation with death: of species, of ecosystems, of potential futures. This tends to be reinforced by my choice of reading material. As...
on Oct 7
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Big News: ARLA Grant, Payrate Increase, Special Issue Call Forthcoming! | Reckoning
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The big news I have been murmuring about here and there on social media and elsewhere these past few weeks is finally ready for primetime: Reckoning Press has been awarded a substantial grant from Accelerate Resilience LA! This generous and largely unlooked-for infusion of support means a lot to...
on Sep 5
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When Israel finished its retraction of the rights of all immigrants, women, queers, and others, and reduced the Knesset to an advising body for a permanent non-elected executive, when that nation stripped away the rights of the remaining Palestinians, all rights, until they were but animals...
on Aug 12
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The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest | Reckoning
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It is with sorrow that this paper announces the passing of one of our town’s greatest treasures, Wendy “Darling” Marszałek. She died on August 18th, 2081, in her early eighties. Contrary to her frequent predictions, she did not die “crushed under a pile of old tech”; she went peacefully, in her...
on Jul 22
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Review: Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri. Stelliform Press, 2023. | Reckoning
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Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri, solarpunk writer and editor, depicts an ecotopian community thriving through the climate crisis after the collapse of the current global economy. In dialogue with current trends in politics and environmentalism—as well as timeless themes like the weight of...
on Jul 10
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The days were more dear now. She could give minutes to the snapdragons, pruning their spent blooms and freeing the stems to flower again. Or spend an hour with her glasses and notebook, hoping for a tufted titmouse to report to the lost species trackers. Or she could stay inside on Shredder and save a
on Jul 8
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That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ | Reckoning
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Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it. Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire village’s herd destroyed in an instant? Of course not. The behemoth was eight feet tall &
on Jul 1
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Podcast Episode 32: The Battle for Florida | Reckoning
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, Reckoning's new audio editor. I'm also the reader and audio producer for this story. Hi there. Hello! Today, listeners, we have David Holloway's "The...
on Jun 25
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One More Call for Support | Reckoning
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I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise pay rates and put out a special issue we're proud of. These times are harder.
on Jun 24
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In the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old | Reckoning
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1. The year 2067 is an endless Water War. I am standing in front of what used to be a Pizza Pizza on the corner of Queen and Bathurst, fighting alongside my family, because of course my family is there. I am toothless and my partner’s glasses are so scratched they’re almost useless and our
on Apr 22, 2024
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fear of pipes and shallow water | Reckoning
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beside the crick a few cm deep it glides across spilt jumbles of rock curling trails of unctuous vapor spin fractals up my arm from a stub pinched between fingers white smoke fades away into the glare off the water the crick chatters the din of each flow a voice a dinner party. the
on Apr 1, 2024
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Salt had crept in while he was away, and now the freshwater wetlands of Gino’s childhood are a marsh, brackish and fickle. There is the soccer field where he’d stained his knees; it had been a low, dry rise of earth bracketed by mud and cordgrass, and today is impassable, a thicket of cattails in
on Mar 26, 2024
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Kelsey Day is a queer poet from southern Appalachia. Their work can be found in Freeman’s, The Appalachian Review, Washington Square Review, The Foundationalist, Brave Voices, and Our Shared Memory Collective, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Penrose Poetry Prize, and Best of the Net.
on Mar 25, 2024
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On Ongoing Prejudice in the SFF Community and What Is to Be Done | Reckoning
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Let me begin by repeating that Reckoning is actively seeking work by marginalized writers and artists, we would love to publish more work in translation, we pay translators the same rate we pay authors (10 cents a word for prose, $50 per page for poetry and art), and though we are not currently able to
on Mar 2, 2024
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Aureliano Segundo ask[ed the Arabs] with his usual informality what mysterious resources they had relied upon so as not to have gone awash in the storm . . . one after the other, from door to door, they returned a crafty smile and a dreamy look, and without any previous consultation they all gave the
on Feb 21, 2024