Loyalty on Trial
This issue centers on the word loyalty—a concept that unfolds into questions of choice, demand, duty, and betrayal. Gothic loyalty may be tender or terrifying, inherited or invented, sacred or broken. In everyday life we concede that loyalty is the bare minimum: we expect our friends not to betray us. Yet the universe grows bleak […]
The King’s Greatest Soldier
They did not knock when they arrived. They did not tell when we asked. They did not spare when we begged. Like lightning in a bottle, it disappeared almost instantaneously. My childhood. My belief in humanity. My parents. Taken by tall men in uniforms with a three-letter acronym. The only thing that came […]