From the Editor: The Synaesthesia Issue

I am slow to reach for music these days, maybe because music doesn’t feel out of reach anymore.

Half Mystic returns in full colour—welcome, dear songbirds, to the preorder period for the synaesthesia issue.

Half Mystic is committed to upholding the highest standards of originality, integrity, & literary citizenship in our authors & the work we publish.

Half Mystic began as a grand experiment in championing work that lives between literature & song, hope & fight, horizon & sea.

Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.

Introducing Synaesthesia

Welcome to synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice; the song-scent wafting on wind; the tongues of memory & light.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 4, 2020

From the Editor: The Sforzando Issue

Nothing in this place has ever been abandoned. If we sound desperate, that’s only because we know what our hands can do.

We don’t come to this decision lightly, & we believe the extra breathing room is truly necessary to publishing Issue VIII with care & intentionality.

Thank you for teaching us the grace of sandpaper, the razor-kiss of wreckage, staccato-sharp skeleton strung up to a 4/4 time signature.

This issue is not a crescendo but a car crash, perfect as death, sudden as becoming. It eats its ghosts alive, mouth raw & open. It refuses to blink.