By Antoinette Van Sluytman From #CHM 70 April 2026 The primeval land of the First Women is not for this corporeal flesh of ours, and we are intruders here. This unfathomable tier they once called home is to be claimed by their red-veiled daughters alone. I know this because I have met one, and the […]
By Colleen Anderson From #CHM 70 April 2026 Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ~William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” After the breakdown, the howling void of New York feeding on her, Kylie withdrew from the whole wide world. She sold her condo […]
By Anneli Marks From #CHM 70 April 2026 Malum (Latin) Noun: 1. Evil 2. Apple After forty-one years, one hundred eleven days, and five hours, Old Osvald’s waiting ended. A figure appeared on the country road between the green, rolling hills. Soon enough, his misty eyes could make out her face. That young Miller girl […]