Familiars may be bathroom window succulents, scapegoats, or trash rats, childhood pets, dancer bees, or poppy mites, autumn mums, or blushing octopi. Readers will be prompted to focus unsentimentally on their interdependence and toward the multitude ways humans may and do choose to choreograph their lives within an ecosystem of practical, emotional and sometimes even sexually entangled companionsh
ip and predation. This quarterly series will provide a balance to the forms articulating these encounters. Qualitative depictions of others' lived or imagined experiences will help extend our gaze back and forward in time and beyond parochial subjectivity into new or hybrid {king}doms of communication, ethics, consciousness, identity, economy, politics, symbiosis and evolution. Expect Familiars to inspire readers to think about dog toys and office ferns on the weekends, UFO visitations, bejeweled troll dolls and apartment renovations in new and more expansive ways. Email [email protected] for questions, submission information and deep weird loving. See you at the release party for issue 2
