The Unseen Issue
No. 21, spring 2024
**Please note: Orders will be fulfilled beginning January 3 when we return from our Office Holiday Shutdown. ALL DISCOUNTS WILL BE HONORED AS ADVERTISED**
Our Unseen issue explores the stories that are hiding (or have been hidden) in the shadows. These pages burst with genre-soaked tales of ghosts, real-life imaginary friends, and old-fashioned invisibility guns. But you haven’t seen the half of it! Unseen also investigates what it’s like to live on (or be forced onto) the margins of society, to be someone who the culture might rather ignore. Our writers explore race, cultural assimilation, homelessness, sexism, and more.
And there’s something truly special about this issue’s contributors, too! Through our partnership with Kelly Sue DeConnick and #VisibleWomen, we’ve focused on bringing in artists of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ authors, and many other “unseen” creators. The 21st issue of F(r)iction overflows with perspectives that we don’t see enough in publishing, making them impossible to ignore.
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All proceeds support our nonprofit mission to change lives through the power of storytelling! For more information about our parent nonprofit, please visit BrinkLit.org.
In this issue:
- Editor’s Note, Words By Dani Hedlund, Art By Dannie Niu
- An Unbiased History of Cognitive Bias, Words By Leland Cheuk, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- Ward, Words By Benjamin Percy, Art By Koby Griggs
- Three Poems, Words By Alycia Pirmohamed, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- Unmasked, Words By Patricia A. Jackson, Art By Ejiwa Ebenebe
- Healthy, Words By KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ, Art By Shuhan Yang
- Wait, Words By Karla Nappi, Art By Isabel Burke
- Snapping in Two, Words By Hannah Grieco, Art By Lia Liao
- Becoming Visible, Words By Kelly Sue DeConnick, Interviewed by Dani Hedlund, Art By Koby Griggs
- West Texas Ghost Story, Words By Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal, Art By Isabel Burke
- Close Cover Before Striking, Words By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Art By Dannie Niu
- Behind the Masks: A Community Feature with Yellow Medicine Review, Words By Diane Glancy, Travis Hedge Coke, January Rogers, Art By Koby Griggs
- The Script Doctor, Words By Audrey T. Carroll, Art By Kailee Rosen
- The Shirt, Words By Ray Miller, Art By Kayla Rader
- Brilliance—A Comic Memoir, Words By Juaquin Mobley, Art By Amalas Rosa
- Three Poems, Words By Tara Tulshyan, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- The Travails of Mr. Yazoo, Words By Christian Holt, Art By Yuntong Lei
- Final Girl, Words By Lydia Gwyn, Art By Lisa LaRose
- Tristan’s Shadow, Words By Nic Anstett, Art By Isabel Burke