When the Mo(n)ths (Dis)Appeared

When the Mo(n)ths (Dis)Appeared by lydja uta szatkowska is a starkly visceral, immersive, dynamic journey that reads like experimental, interactive poetic play. In three acts you witness the protagonist brave through a somber experience, trudging deep and even deeper into an abysmal forest where moons are moths and banshees wail and there are monsters in plain sight and death is a persistent ghost looming over you. But you yourself are no passive bystander, you possess the agency to choose, at the fork, if you want to read the line "I'm not ready to [roll the] di[c]e" as "I'm not ready to roll the dice" or as "I'm not ready to die." --Nadia Gerassimenko, Founding editor, Moonchild Magazine