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INTRODUCTION: THE FIVE SENSES
Too often in fiction, the sense of sight overwhelms the other four, which might each merit a mention amid lengthy descriptions of what the character is seeing. Sight is the primary observation sense for most people, but there is more to be learnt from what we hear, smell, taste and feel than much fiction allows. In this issue, I offer a night in which each sense is given its own story. Smell and sound might change the night's events—or they might not. Taste and touch reveal tales that might not otherwise be told. And sight is a beautiful, strange thing. The greater equality of the senses in this issue will, I hope, go a small way towards redressing the balance.
STORIES
—[SOUND] The Inferno
Yoon Ha Lee
—[TOUCH] A Soul, Touched
Stephanie Campisi
—[SMELL] Time In Aspic
Rudi Dornemann
—[SIGHT] Refraction
Becca De La Rosa
—[TASTE] Bittersweet
Lisa Mantchev
Alex Dally MacFarlane recently graduated from King's College London with a BA in War Studies and History. She is currently working just outside London, proof-reading military specifications. Her short fiction has sold to magazines including Shimmer, Sybil's Garage and Farrago's Wainscot and to the Sporty Spec anthology from Raven Electrick Ink, and a poem is forthcoming in Goblin Fruit. This is the first time she has put her hand to editing, and she does not intend for it to be the last.
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