Shadowplay 2025 Issue 3

Editorial -a cento using the works from Shadowplay Issue 3 this is where we live: an angry earth fracturing into uncountable divisions fear honed by worsening chaos fleeting eden entombed in a thousand kinds of oblivion-black >in the grief: believe in the hidden sun turn blackbirds to doves hurl ink >all through the dark-the dense tenebris-the cobbled light, golden and slow, pushes through the cracks, demanding to be seen: clean sheets wood smoke freezer casserole primordial love deep water sleep milk bottles beside green dinosaurs the sky's mooned eye blooming like the slender petal >in this sand and anger: become a thing of diamond make a monument of mercy shine like light on wet side streets reach for it anyway however far you think you are >Christian Chase Garner Editor-in-Chief of Shadowplay