“At this point, the climate crisis feels like another throbbing pulse in my being. I had to do something to deal with this despair, so during the pandemic, I began to write.”
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How to Tell a True Origin Story of a Novel
By Nina Schuyler
“My novel is about a female mathematician, Virginia, who uses artificial intelligence to bring back her dead lover. The two anecdotes I just told you might seem like the origin story of my novel. If someone tells you an origin story like this, don’t believe it.”
Issue 27 | Fall 2022
Issue twenty-seven invites you to a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.
Featuring entrancing new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.
The Cathedral of Desire
Nina Schuyler
“Before she taped closed the box of Floor Polish Shine, she slid in her note, I miss watermelon. And with the bottle of Mold Killer, I miss pink tulips.
The notes didn’t harm anyone. Little scraps of paper, a message that there was more to the Cathedral of Desire than what met the eye.”
“Throwing Out the Commas” by Nina Schuyler in Fiction Advocate
Nina Schuyler reads an excerpt from “Pixie”
Nina Schuyler is the author of the award-winning novel, The Translator. Her first novel, The Painting, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and was named a “Year’s Finest Best Book” by the San Francisco Chronicle. She teaches creative writing at the...
Issue 13 | Winter 2017
Your Impossible Voice #13 features new work from Nina Schuyler, Thorsten Nagelschmidt, Kirsten Hemmy, Laurie Blauner, and more.