May 2014
The Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with the fourth issue featuring all-original short fiction by S.L. Gilbow, Yukimi Ogawa, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Natalia Theodoridou.
In This Issue
The Land Baby
by Natalia Theodoridou
The diving suit weighs against his body like a wall. He pushes through the water. The pressure in his eardrums is constant and piercing, as if a nail is being driven through his head. The glass of his diving helmet fogs up; the view becomes obscure, the kingdom around him threatening, mystical. Dark forms swim […]
Phrase Book
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
hajimemashit: pleased to meet you. I found animal tracks in the snow this morning. I don’t know what it is. A bear? I’m a city person. This whole northern Ontario wilderness is terribly annoying. And Tetsuo is not even here. He had to fly back to Tokyo. Some family problem. He also forgot to load […]
Mr. Hill’s Death
by S. L. Gilbow
Mr. Hill’s death is posted on YouTube. You can’t actually see him. Just the back of his sunflower yellow convertible, top up, cruising along a two lane road. The fifty-second clip, taken from a dash cam in a following car, seems rather ordinary at first, and you might think you were watching a typical drive […]
Perfect
by Yukimi Ogawa
Look! My magnolia dress! Do you see the skirt is all made of countless magnolia flowers? All white, custard-tinted, except for this one . . . yes, the tailor made a stupid mistake and only this one here is purple. But it was near the back, and really low down, so I decided to overlook […]
