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Credits for Spring 2023 Magazine — Disaster

Half-heartedness

Half-heartedness sometimes i feel like my life is going nowhere though i want to live fully satisfied  i do not know how to go on properly  it becomes a circle,  a circle of the tornado  that will tear the future apart https://thestrand.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Animated-gif-of-Kelseys-photoshoot-2.mp4 unknowinglyliving by halveswill destroy you. Model: Raquel Lewin ...
Artistic depiction of hands breaking open a heart-shape fruit causing an image that looks like heartbreak

Cover Illustrations — Disaster magazine

Covers illustrations by Shelley Yao

It’s okay to believe in ghosts

It’s okay to believe in ghosts words by Eugene Kimphotos by Nicholas Tam and Kelsey Ngan Phungmodelling by Anh Minh Le “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of ...
Illustration depicting Mahsa Amini protests

There’s a Baby Within the Beast

There’s a Baby Within the Beast words by Kalliopé Anvar McCallillustration by Chelsea Wang          For the children of Iran. I wrote this poem after I saw a baby in a demonstration in Toronto while protesting the murder of Jîna Mahsa Aminî . The protest was very difficult emotionally; everyone ...
Dark photo of overpass in city

The End.

The End. words by Rachel Suginphoto by Kelsey Phung It was all so perfect once, I can barely remember it now.   Apparently it makes me stronger,  “Disaster grows character” But the only thing I see sprouting are weeds. And not even the pretty ones—no dandelions,  Just regular old grass. ...
Abstract minimalist lack and white illustration of close-up of someone eating a fruit

all into one

all into one words and illustration by Ella Spitzer-Stephan The skin of a peach is so soft, too soft softer than mine, softer than the hair that  grows behind a cat’s ear— Humanise the flesh of a fruit  recognise it as something equally as living as moving as my legs—your ...
Abstract illustration of a queen shaped like the queen of hearts in a playing deck shedding tears

pyrrhus retires from war

pyrrhus retires from war words by Namah Jaggiillustration by Jennifer Fong-Li “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.”  –Plutarch   i love like a broken thermostat. like it has no repercussions, like we have gas to last a lifetime and the ...
Abstract artistic photo featuring segments of a life-like eye and a photo of a broken clock

The End of Time

artwork by Chelsea Wang
Illustration of zombie-looking people sitting at a dinner over breakfast

PARTY POST-MORTEM

PARTY POST-MORTEM words by Brooke Collinsillustration by Natalie Song The party passed peacefully In the late hours of the night. A friend of a friend clinging to the dark, Swaddled by the door.     Day breaks And we emerge From       Glitter-stained pillowcases, Hanging over each other on the 502, ...