The imagination issue

Gravity

par Krishan Coupland · visuels: Senor Salme

Gravity started reversing. It happened slowly, in increments day by day. At first you’d hang for just a second longer than usual at the apex of a jump. Feathers and dust and the broken nibs of pencils refused point-blank to fall. Water wobbled slowly from the tap like golden syrup. I thought it was fun when I found that I could jump from the top of the stairs and drift gently down through the air like a seed

The Twain

par Fabian Acker · visuels: Ann-Christine Voss

Short story

Steak and mushroom pie

par Andy Hickmott · visuels: Ryan Inanza

Poem

How to be a writer

par Kirsty Logan

Short story

A family visit

par Charlotte Wetton · visuels: Laura Riedinger

Poem

Kaleidoscope room

par Jessica Edwards · visuels: Chris Rixon

Poem

Where the ice sinks

par Lynn Hoffman · visuels: Sandra Dieckmann

There is a world that thrives a half an inch above and five seconds behind the one we know.

The ingenium

par Kirstie Smith · visuels: Michael Hirshon

Short story

Baby names

par Benjamin Zadik · visuels: Phil Wrigglesworth

Flash fiction

The White room

par Michael Hitchins · visuels: Adam Batchelor

Short story

Schrödinger’s wine

par Armel Dagorn · visuels: Daniel Mitchell

Flash fiction

Fire

par Maria Apichella · visuels: Rosie Gainsborough

Poem