A Plate of Pandemic
Published Quarterly on the Solstices and Equinoxes
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Bengi Çakmak, currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Turkey, loves knitting stories about more-than-human worlds and attempts to grasp the layers of the chaosmos. She dreams of a day when events unfold to demonstrate that the fantastic is not a genre, but the way of the world.
2020-2021, Istanbul, Turkey, Earth I wake up from a deep nap, refreshed and renewed. Immediately check the time. It is almost 6 o’clock. At 8, the second lock-down will begin. I have two hours sharp. So sharp that it cut my feelings into pieces. What should I do? Go out? Have beers and […]