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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The End of Time
artwork by Chelsea Wang
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, ...