Michael J. DeLuca – författare

New mother and climate refugee Aileen Dupree has been abandoned by her partner in post- industrial Detroit. Her neighbor, Virgil, is Aileen''s only connection to the outside world. But then Virgil borrows Aileen''s prized possession - a chrome and leather, royal blue fourteen-speed bike - and disappears. Looking for answers, Aileen hears strange stories of the Elf, a timeless being that always fought the colonizers and capitalists of Detroit, and now leads the Night Roll on a race through the city''s disintegrating streets. It is up to Aileen to brave the strange magic of the Night Roll and bring Virgil back. But what can the Elf teach her about her new life? And what must she pay for that knowledge?

Felipe K''icab doesn''t know who he is. He only knows he was born different than his human family, and he can''t relax unless he''s blasting reggaeton in his cab weaving through the streets of Guatemala City. The jaguar mask and his other human faces keep him safe--until El Bufo, a corrupt ex-cop, commandeers his cab and drags Felipe into a murder conspiracy investigation, trying to expose the foreign-backed regime''s ecocidal and genocidal past.

Cristina Ramos knows who her mother''s killers are. After witnessing the murder in a vision, she struggles to keep her grieving family from falling apart. When El Bufo''s relentless vendetta throws Felipe into her life amid increasing civil unrest, Felipe and Cristina must overcome generations of institutionalized silence, uncover the secrets of their powers, and forge a path to justice, or else be swept away by another wave of violence.

A series of creative reactions to the pandemic, its impact on our creative processes and prospects for the future from Reckoning contributors and staff.

All proceeds to COVID relief.

Contents

A Coronavirus Call for Answers - Editorial - Michael J. DeLuca April 6, 2020

The Solace of Connection - Essay - Marissa Lingen Written March 28, published April 6, 2020.

Pandemic life. - Essay - Casey June Wolf Written March 30, 2020, published April 13, 2020.

COVID Protease Monster Glyph - Art - Mona Robles April 16, 2020, published April 20, 2020

COVID19 - Tania Fordwalker Written April 1, 2020, published April 20, 2020

Papa''s Scary Talk About COVID-19 and Pollution - Poetry - Tim Fab-Eme Written April 1, 2020, published April 27, 2020

We Exist Together - Essay - Juliana Roth Written April 1, 2020, published April 27

The Pandemic Residency - Essay - Octavia Cade Written April 2, 2020, published May 4

Summer Song - Poetry - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam Written April 3, 2020, published May 4

On and About - Essay - Innocent Ilo Written April 4, 202, published May 11

A Predicament - Essay - Johannes Punkt Written April 5, 2020, published May 11

A Memory of the Future - Fiction - Floris M. Kleijne Written April 11, 2020

Interview - Soumya Sundar Mukherjee Written April 11, 2020

Writing in the Time of Coronavirus - Essay - Giselle Leeb Written April 12, 2020

Protecting Edges - Essay - Anna Kate Blair Written April 13, 2020

#SayNiceThingsAboutDetroit - Essay - Mansuda Arora Written April 14, 2020

One Month - Essay - E. M. Wright Written April 16, 2020

Coronavirus and the Digital Divide - Essay - Commando Jugendstil Written April 24, 2020

Interview - D. A. Xiaolin Spires Written April 28, 2020

Art Installation in the Time of COVID19 - Poetry - Krista Hoeppner Leahy Written May 17, 2020

Looking Out, Looking In - Essay - Shikhandin Written May 27, 2020

Dynamic Equilibrium - Poetry - Teika Marija Smits Written May 31, 2020

Living in a Metaphor - Essay - Waverly SM Written June 26, 2020

In the Flowery Countryside - Poetry - Kelly Madden Written July 4, 2020

Times and Seasons and Vanity upon Vanity - Poetry - Tim Fab-Eme Written 7/5/2020

Each day the world grows smaller & larger - Poetry - Holly J. Hughes Written March 18, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 - Essay - James Treat Written July 6, 2020

It''s a Dark Time and I Try to Be a Light - Essay - Brian Francis Slattery Written July 8, 2020

Retreat, April 2, 2020 - Poetry - Adelia MacWilliam Written April 2, 2020

Escaping in a little boy''s play. - Essay - Ernest Ifeanye Nweke Written July 30, 2020

COVID Summer: After, Now - Poetry - Marissa Lingen Written July 31, 2020

COVID Summer: Against Dystopia - Poetry - Marissa Lingen Written July 31, 2020

Writing in the Time of Coronavirus 2 - Essay - Giselle Leeb Written August 26, 2020

In Isolation - Essay - Andrew Kozma Written September 9, 2020

Grieving Season - Essay - Rachel Watts Written January - September, 2020

Kondottiyans - Poetry - Fabiyas MV Written September 20, 2020

Green Papayas on a Sunday Evening - Poem and Essay - Written January, 2021