"Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Becca Thorne
After a year-long hiatus, Phantom Kangaroo has resurrected for issue no. 18. The time away felt like a loud void, my universe flattened and I began to want it back the way fireworks stretch and wail for the stars.
Featured in this issue are all the makings of an interstellar mystery — that is alien landings, some crushing fear, a dead spouse, a kidnapped girl and a Mojave ghost story.
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— Claudia, January 2014
" … until the dirty teeth of night
pierce my thoughts
and devour them
like tiny rabbits
spit out the soft fur
these few lines
and the crystal stars
of your eyes"
— "into the storm," Jean Brasseur