Reckoning 8, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM, engages with the essential toil, struggle, pain, triumph, loss, and persistence of resisting the patriarchofascist, corporate-captured extractive state. May these words and images grant us solace and strength for another year. Contents; Art; Breaking Points – Martins Deepsunday in atlanta – Kelsey DayPearls of Wisdom – Kirsty GreenwoodShelton Johnson Calls – Amuri Morris. Poetry; sunday in atlanta – Kelsey DayTisha b’Av – Esther Alter Wade – Olumide Manuel A Chanterelle Empress & Porcini Prince at the Precipice of the World – Chanlee LuuRiis Beach – Dina Abdulhadi Climate Injustice – Lovely RajuClimate Crisis in My (Un)known Dream – Lovely RajuCivil Disobedients – Joanna Streetly50% off Venus Fly Traps – Kelsey Dayfear of pipes and shallow water – William O. Balmer Data, Land, Scape – Koby OmanskyThat Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. Fiction; The Battle for Florida – David HollowayIn the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old – Sage TyrtleStill Life – James CatoA Shape that Has No Name – Monica WendelThe Donor – Bernie Jean SchiebelingA Move to a New Country – Dan MusgraveWhere the Water Came From – Jeff Hewitt. Within the Seed Lives the Fruit – Leah AndelsmithOne with the Ground – Guillermo G. MendozaUna con el suelo – Guillermo G. MendozaIt’s in the Blood – Susan Kaye QuinnFixing the System in Tilt Town – Kat MurrayThe Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest – Ellis Nye. Nonfiction. Editor’s Note – Waverly SMEditor’s Note – Knar GavinThe X That Means Both Death and Hope – Ariadne Starling.
