Heuristic Halo Press

10/02/2024

January, 2024 Issue of Heuristic Halo Press is out now!

"Who were you? Who do you want to be?"

"Where have you come from? Where will you go?"

"Are you the fruit of your past or the roots of your future?"

"Do your roots dictate what fruit you bear or do they not?"

In this issue, to mark the end of a tumultuous year and the beginning of a new year, we look back at the past as you look forward to the future.

Explore the issue by checking out our web page.
Website: https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/january-2024-issue/

Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome. You can leave a comment on our website or send a mail to our email at [email protected].

06/01/2024

We would like to invite writers, poets, cartoonists and artists to freely contribute to our magazine. Our printed version of all issues will be out in this year!

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Heuristic Halo Press is a bimonthly online magazine committed to the presence of new, diverse voices.

04/01/2024

CIGARETTE-LACED LAMENTATIONS by Zo

" "[...]. It’s just so bizarre to me that there is something sick inside you.”

“It’s not that bizarre. I like to believe we are all a little sick in the head.”

“What makes you believe that?”

“What makes you believe that you, or anyone you know is not sick in the head like me? Maybe what you consider as normalcy is, in reality, a form of sickness you simply got used to.” "

Read the rest of the story in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/05/cigarette-laced-lamentations/

28/12/2023

ANIMA: THE MONSTER VISITS ME SOMETIMES by Juz_Coehee

"“Jik jik jik” , the unpleasant teeth-grinding echoing in the pitch dark quiet room. The strong unknown creature which is trying weakly to break through something. I know, besides me, there is someone or maybe something in this room, which I wish the last to know. Who is that? Where will it be? Feeling near but being far away; feeling far away but being near. I am wondering if it will melt down from the ceiling; or will upright through my bed; or will be from my inner self."

Read the full story in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/anima-the-monster-visits-me-sometimes/

27/12/2023

Winter's Fever Dream by Asiling

"Are you for me? Are you for me? Are you for me? No other living beings could ever bring peace to me just as you do. For the human heart is fragile and sentimental, living is pure pain. And how do you love me without hurting me? Are you ethereal?"

Read the full piece in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/winters-fever-dream/

25/12/2023

A HAVEN MADE OF MEMORIES by Zo

"Back when I was 4 or 5 years old, I used to sleep in my parents’ bedroom. There was something peculiarly cozy about that bedroom which still sends a warm soothing feeling down my spine whenever my mind wanders back into the elusive memory of it."

Read the full piece in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/a-haven-made-of-memories/

10/11/2023

We are now calling for submissions for our December, 2023 Issue.

The theme of the new issue will be "Roots and Fruits".

For this issue, we urge our writers and artists to explore the following questions.
"Who were you? Who do you want to be?"
"Where have you come from? Where will you go?"
"Are you the fruit of your past or the roots of your future?"
"Do your roots dictate what fruit you bear or do they not?"
How have you answered these questions and why? And what impact might these answers have for you and/or those around you?

In this issue, to mark the end of a tumultuous year, we invite you to look back at the past as you look forward to the future. As always, you're also welcome to approach the theme from a unique perspective. We'll be looking forward to your submissions regardless.

You can read the details of our guidelines and submit your work(s) in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/submissions/

An individual can submit up to 5 works (of any category).

You cannot submit works that have been previously published elsewhere. (including online)

The deadline is 24:00 (GMT +6:30), December 20th, 2023.

DISCLAIMER: There will be NO MONETARY COMPENSATION for those whose works will be published. Enter the link to read more about your rights as a writer.

14/09/2023

September, 2023 Issue of Heuristic Halo Press has been out for a week!

[CONTENT WARNING: This issue contains stories that depicts explicit language, mental illness, su***de, sexual abuse and gore.]

The theme of this latest issue was "Slipping from Normalcy".
For this issue, our writers and artists have looked back on the time they were pushed away from their normalcy and their journey back to it. They reflected on these darkest times of their lives and created beautiful pieces of writing that are meaningful out of them.

Explore the issue by checking out our website:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome. You can leave a comment on our website or send a mail to our email at [email protected].

13/09/2023

BURNING BLACK HOME by Zo

"I ran alone out my burning black home;
left my own hammered heart and battered bones,
my razor-cut skins,
and butchered dead dreams."

Read the rest of the poem in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/burning-black-home/

12/09/2023

NOCTURNE OF A YOUTH by Rodney P. Pole

"The only certain predicament the ephemeral pass through this young body has assured me, is how even the flow of the shallow waters of youth can be as potent and unpredictable as the profound darkness of the open sea."

Read the rest of the poem in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/nocturne-of-a-youth/

11/09/2023

I AM A LUNATIC by MarsDust

"During most days of meditation, I try to find the Buddha within me albeit the fact that I’m crazy. Do I know myself thoroughly? Do we know ourselves? Well, I am a lunatic so how would I know?"

Read the rest of the poem in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/i-am-a-lunatic/

09/09/2023

VORE by Noa Howitz

"Every time I stood in front of the mirror, I started to see a lump of meat, red and ready to be butchered and devoured. I started to smell like meat as well. Even my deodorant couldn’t cover the smell. At one point, I even began to feel like meat. My body no longer felt like my own. I could no longer feel it. Flies circled around me like vultures around a carcass. One night, I woke up to a trail of red ants taking pieces of my sole back to their colony. "

Read the rest of the story in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/vore/

08/09/2023

MYTH OF NORMALCY by Nephele

"When I first heard the theme of this issue, all I could think of was a novel—that is more of a memoir than a fiction—by the Japanese author, Dazai Osamu. The novel is called No Longer Human. It sets out to ask fundamental questions about human and the notion of normalcy. What makes a human human? What makes a human normal? Unfortunately, the protagonist, who was Dazai himself, couldn’t figure out the answers before he was finally able to end his agony. "

Read the rest of the essay in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/myth-of-normalcy/

07/09/2023

IF NOTHING ELSE CRUSHED BEAUTY by Wakame

Singing to a crushed flower on the road:-
Mirror mirror on the wall
Why do these chains hold us all
In games of lust and pride errant
Hoping for soothing betterment
Yet changing nothing in this futile brawl
For glory and gore remain cheap substitutes
To the true majesty of a dew stained champa
Yet once fallen they are crushed underfoot
These true adornments of the fecund earth
By these blind beasts that seek to attain a reflection of true beauty
In someone’s sad and nervous mirth

Read the rest of the issue in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

06/09/2023

CRYING SKY by MarsDust

Grey is the sky ‘fore its sob
Crop the atmosphere down drip-drop
Raging emotion in certain individuals won’t stop for them heads indoctrinated by contaminated thoughts forming between the ears a divided silly solid rock.
The rain just elevated the feelings of flopped… won’t stop.. been o’er a week ’em don’t sleep, even on tiny matters ill-tamper untweaked.. Cry..Breathe…. Sleeep please..
While the sky’s unclouding itself raining down beneath.
Thoughts of heaven-sent memories in them families while drizzling would miraculously tweak in the rainy breeze.

Read the rest of the issue in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

05/09/2023

To commemorate the publication of our 6th issue and to compensate for the anniversary we didn't get to celebrate, here are some facts about Heuristic Halo Press. We thank you for the love and support you express for a small magazine like us.

If you'd like to read our latest issue, please go to the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

If you'd like to learn more about us, please go to the following link.
https://www.facebook.com/heuhalopress/posts/102433692574909

05/09/2023

6 issues in 1 year and 3 months. 🥳

Go to the following link to read our latest issue:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

04/09/2023

September, 2023 Issue of Heuristic Halo Press is out now!

[CONTENT WARNING: This issue contains stories that depicts explicit language, mental illness, su***de, sexual abuse and gore.]

We’ve all been there; we’ve all been in the position where life hits us with something unexpected and we suddenly find ourselves astray from our normal path. Maybe it’s a debilitating failure; maybe it’s a loss of someone important to you; maybe it’s an illness; maybe it’s something traumatic. Whatever it may be, it tosses you away from your own definition of normalcy, and now, you’re struggling to go back to it. The journey back to normalcy is arduous, painful, infuriating and sometimes, it feels like forever.

For this issue, our writers and artists look back on the time they were pushed away from their normalcy and their journey back to it. They reflect on these darkest times of their lives and create something meaningful, something beautiful out of them.

Explore the issue by checking out our web page.

Website:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/september-2023-issue/

Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome. You can leave a comment on our website or send a mail to our email at [email protected].

03/09/2023

Due to technical issues on our part, we had to delay the publication of our September, 2023 issue and postpone it to tomorrow, September 4th. We thank you for your patience and anticipation. As an apology, let us present the artworks for this issue.

02/09/2023

Our September, 2023 Issue will be published on September 4th, Monday at 8:00 PM (MMT). The theme of the issue is "Slipping from Normalcy".

10/08/2023

DAWN AT DUSK by MarsDust & Zo

Crimson ‘fore violet, the sky’s visage, fickle,
Creeps into my tangled flesh whilst its blood tentacles
Trickle through towering pines, like rivers asymmetrical.
Dwindles, my dark shrine, with cracks of red, shriveled.
Ruffled by the arched smile of the light that blooms on night’s mural,
giggles my crippled heart, thoroughly nibbled.

Freckle-like lucent plankton, up the velvet sheet
Breeds a garden of eyes on my skull’s rind, that can’t cry or bleed.
Systemic cosmic memories deleted; hemorrhage of the obsolete holy
Choke the cannibal fire off hell mired in shells of my soul slowly
As the silver hands that hang from the lune of light bite them off wholly.
Cold teeth of the old leech
leashed to my spine
shed,
dead dry,
finally, like gold leaves.

Read the rest of the issue in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/july-2023-issue/

03/08/2023

RAGGED LUSH by MarsDust

Lavish fan made of men, women and children stocks up to nature and never knows it has always been an extra in an abundance of artificial luxuries.

Ragged fan made of bamboo created happiness to some people in the jungle.

Happiness in nature shall ring clearer to those who live by virtue of good nature.

Say we not albeit the feelings reflect
Regrets not for where the right nature gets
Us to the tough path, still ‘us’ be real to ‘us’
For we the people, the power within ‘us’
For ‘WE’ stand within each of ‘YOU’

Why should we do what we do?
What can we do?
What will we do?
How shall we do it?

Breeze it not as we ain’t ritz folks in lush lives
Pride not we in posh city while we in countryside, plight
By all means, all the good things await when we do right

Read the rest of the issue in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/july-2023-issue/

25/07/2023

FINAL FANTASY XVI: Shattered Expectations by Michael Spires

"Speechless was my only reaction to watching two men share a romantic kiss in a video game. It was 9:00 am on a Sunday and I had just defeated Hugo, the man who could turn into the earth shattering Titan, and caused Clive so much hurt by destroying his Hideaway and decimating his home kingdom. All for a woman he kept as a lover. I was set on making him pay for his actions. After the hour long battle that ensued, I finally reached the cutscenes that followed to allow me a moment’s break. Little did I know that my emotions would be stirred again."

Read the rest of the essay in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/final-fantasy-xvi-shattered-expectations/

23/07/2023

ON EGO AND IMMORTALITY by Zo

"A beginning followed by an end. This skeleton of existential narrative disfigured beyond recognition does not stay confined to fiction. It escapes from our fictional worlds and possesses every other narrative we weave, from our diaries and eulogies to our histories and prophecies—scientific and mythical. The Big Bang followed by the Big Freeze. The Creation followed by the Apocalypse. Genesis of life followed by its ultimate extinction. Rise of empires followed by their fall. Birth of a being followed by its death. "

Read the full essay in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/on-ego-and-immortality/

22/07/2023

ARE YOU HAPPY? by MarsDust

Twirling exhausted leaves touched down
Rounds of reminiscence, search we, unfound
Screens touched and rubbed with emotions never before felt
Dealt wealth and fame cards on social platforms, we said:
Are we sad being happy only online and can’t confide a soul when we’re upset?

Sprung out of ground tiny trunk with a couple leaves said to fruits and flowers after some years:
ain’t life some wonder?
Smile a little around some big trees
Leaves ask me: are you happy?

Read the rest of the issue in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/are-you-happy/

21/07/2023

We are now calling for submissions for our September, 2023 Issue

The theme of the new issue will be “Slipping from Normalcy”.

We’ve all been there; we’ve all been in the position where life hits us with something unexpected and we suddenly find ourselves astray from our normal path. Maybe it’s a debilitating failure; maybe it’s a loss of someone important to you; maybe it’s an illness; maybe it’s something traumatic. Whatever it may be, it tosses you away from your own definition of normalcy, and now, you’re struggling to go back to it. The journey back to normalcy is arduous, painful, infuriating and sometimes, it feels like forever.

For this issue, we want our writers and artists to look back on the time we were pushed away from our normalcy and our journey back to it. We want you to reflect on these darkest times of your lives and create something meaningful, something beautiful out of them.

You can read the details of our guidelines and submit your work(s) in the following link:
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/submissions/

An individual can submit up to 5 works (of any category).

You cannot submit works that have been previously published elsewhere. (including online)

The deadline is 24:00 (GMT +6:30), August 20th, 2023.

DISCLAIMER: Since Heuristic Halo Press is a free magazine, there will be NO COMPENSATION in terms of money for those whose works will be published.

20/07/2023

THE END OF ONE MINUTE HAPPINESS by Asiling

"The next day, I dreamed the-day-before’s dream. I started my day sweeping the white tiles of my pale green room. I made my bed. I looked for the clothes to wash. “Did I forget something?” I thoroughly checked. My towel, my bedsheet, and the sweater I wore in the winter. I didn’t want any old clothes piling up in my room. I made sure everything was washed and cleaned. Then, probably, I thought, I would wake up from these repeating dreams."

Read the full story in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/the-end-of-one-minute-happiness/

18/07/2023

MEET EACH OTHER? by MarsDust

"They were both in their late 60s and haven’t really seen each other in 30 years. All their work and social events had kept them apart, yet when the two close friends finally met, it seemed all the good memories of childhood and teenage years came alive throughout their lengthy but deeply heart-felt conversations."

Read the full story in the following link.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/meet-each-other/

When two friends who haven’t seen each other in 30 years met