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 […]
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 […]
All God’s Chillun Got Shoes
“If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.” –Charles Fort Fort, chronicler of strange natural phenomena, proposed to begin with frogs, including those that purportedly fell from […]