The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here. I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, filming an elderly former soccer star kicking a ball with kids on a scrubby recreation ground, and if somebody […]
Archives for December 2021
Mao’s Children
Editor’s note: A long, long time ago, strange groups populated a lot of the left wing in the US. This is a fictional story about one of them. Avery has previously written a piece of short fiction for the Hard Crackers special print issue, dedicated to founder Noel Ignatiev. That issue can be purchased here. […]
Review of Earth II
Keanu Reeves clicks on the television, to be greeted with dire warnings of impending climate collapse. Antarctica is melting at a startling rate. The coming decades will be defined by death, disease, rampant flooding, rising seas, and widespread species extinction. “The date!” he demands. The talking head responds that a dramatic uptick in these trends […]
Property: Is it Theft? Is it Freedom or Is it Both? Merry Christmas!
Not long after Thanksgiving this year, I went to San Francisco’s Japantown (“Jtown” to locals). Surrounded by commodities for sale and in a high rent district I was reminded of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous remark, “La propriété, c’est le vol!, which is usually translated as “Property is theft.” That’s the kind of remark I’d expect from […]
Call for Submissions: Hard Crackers #9, Another Place
Hard Crackers Magazine is looking for submissions for our next print issue. It’s not Revolution #9 (the Beatles song), nor Love Potion #9 (the Clovers one). Rather, it’s Hard Crackers #9. We have decided on “Another Place” as a general theme for our issue #9. This can encompass a lot: travel in different environments or […]