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Somesuch Stories is a biannual magazine of essays and stories by rising, contemporary writers. Whether fact of fiction; straight, wry or absurd, the pieces inside provide illuminating takes on topics within the realms of culture, nature, sex and society.
Issue 3 contains eleven pieces of writing exploring ideas around disorientation, orientation and reorientation.
Stemming from palpable confusion following geopolitical upheavals,
mixed with concerns about the unpredictability of our collective future –
the essays and short stories within examine ways in which humans attempt to root themselves,
as well as contemplating specific states of discombobulation and dislocation.
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Essays
The Girl Who Learned to Kneel by Fiona Alison Duncan
– divinity, mysticism, sexuality and diary-writing as ritual, now and in 1940s Amsterdam
In Search of Virtual Synaesthesia by Josie Thaddeus-Johns
– multi-sensory perception, contextology and virtual reality
In Which We May Honour Our Boats by Ana Cecelia Alvarez
– Édouard Glissant’s works, and their deep relevance to humanity’s current predicament
The Red Maiden by Emma-Lee Moss
– matchmakers, and the phenomenon of ‘left-over’ women in present day China
Matrescence by Lucy Jones
– the crisis of identity that shakes the psyche during early motherhood
Essex, An Island off London by Tim Burrows
– investigation into Essex's isolated island communities
Short stories
Hourglass, Figured by Eley Williams
– a meditation on the symbols that denote the passing of time and frustrated digital flux
Yawning into the Staring Abyss Again by Trevor Shikaze
– a Wise Owl, a bread box and the futility of scrabbling for meaning
Kozłowski and Louka by Angela Dimitrakaki
– concerning lovers thwarted by geopolitical strictures in present day Europe
Night Wind by Eloghosa Osunde
– superstitions, societal mores and religiosity in Nigeria
A Bright Young Thing by Jessica Andrews
– on feeling adrift in a place that once anchored you
