We fell the trees. The heart-leaves grow proud here, despite the cold earth and beating rains that should keep them humble. They rend the skies, and so we tear their thick trunks with the axes the stone shapers bring us each day. They fall and we move on, always north, while the elders dig up … Continue reading The Spinnings by Rob Francis
It’s hard to believe that Syntax & Salt Magazine has been around for two years now! I worried, once we hit our stride, that this labor of love might become tiresome, burdensome, and while there have been moments where that has been the case, they have been few and far between. Syntax & Salt Magazine … Continue reading Syntax & Salt Magazine 2018 Goals
Syntax & Salt Magazine is very pleased to announce the arrival of Halloween 2017 with this special piece, an invocation of sorts, by Mariel Tishman. Cats and crows and sidewalk cracks, little curses that pass between us two. We glide by each other on the street, our glares sparking, like flint on steel. Sometimes I … Continue reading Wax and Wane by Mariel Tishma
Aground, Upon the Sand by Jennifer R. Donohue is the Syntax & Salt Fall Flash Contest 1st place winner. I say I don’t remember where I came from, because I must. After the storm, I can’t go back, and it’s impossible for me to explain what I really am, what my life was. People try to … Continue reading Aground, Upon the Sand by Jennifer R. Donohue
Feðgin by Wendy Wimmer is the Syntax & Salt Fall Flash Contest 2nd place winner. The darkness makes everything risky, every step fraught with invisible scuttling, chittering and struggling away of tiny creatures—mouse, perhaps, terrestrial bird imagined—or invisible elves—under step. We are near Bárðarbunga, Iceland, a recently quiet volcano, and in the distance, a house that was once a house, … Continue reading Feðgin by Wendy Wimmer