Coming June 29, 2025: SUM FLUX V.4 “Fragmentation”
Fragmentation speaks to the fractured and incomplete. It invites stories shaped by rupture—broken structures, disassembled identities, scattered memories, or moments that refuse to stay whole. This theme leans into dissonance, irregularity, and the raw truth that life moves toward entropy—where things don’t hold, and coherence is the exception, not the rule.
This volume, we’ve invited
to be our artist-in-residence, creating a suite of pieces that run in parallel with the stories. The visuals echo the collection’s core theme of fragmentation, and co-exist with the narratives in a resonant counterpoint.V.4 writers:
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As in past volumes, while our featured writers are selected by invitation, we also reserve space for open call submissions—inviting others to be inspired by both the prompt and the fiction within the volume.
Explore the open call selections from Volume 3 here: Open Call Post.
To submit, send us a message.
BONUS: Story inspired playlist - one song for each story with an opening overture and a closing coda.
“Glass Museum” – Tortoise
overture / table-setter - Post-rock layers enter one at a time, separate, collide, recombine. The piece opens the door on the anthology’s core question: can you keep the groove alive while breaking every surface?
“Radioactivity” – Kraftwerk
In Memoriam - A cold Geiger-click pulse and chant about isotopes and fallout. Sonically “counts” invisible particles the way the story tallies cells, half-lives, and communion wafers.
“Hide and Seek” – Imogen Heap
Too Many Minus One - Heap’s breath is chopped into choir-loops that stack like the sister’s multiplying selves; the sudden dropouts echo the one “piece” never found.
“Oh Yeah” – CAN
Splinter Group - CAN’s trance groove and Damo Suzuki’s glossolalia mirror the apartment acid-trip; that “Oh… YEAH” hook is the grenade pin being pulled over and over.
“Teardrop” – Massive Attack
She didn’t listen to the sounds - Trip-hop heartbeat, hush-vocals, and detuned harpsichord = Layla’s dissociative tunnel: visuals glowing gold while actual sounds are ghosted.
“Born Under Punches” – Talking Heads
don’t howl at it - Polyrhythms march straight ahead while Byrne jitters “I’m catching up with myself”—perfect for a date where the body quietly levitates but the social beat never stops.
“Rabbit in Your Headlights” – UNKLE ft. Thom Yorke
We Are the Body - Car-engine drone, funereal break-beat, and Yorke’s muttered litany create a rolling sacrament inside a cab—mirrors the hitch-hike, the illicit meat-eating, and the pronoun shift from we to I.
“Different Trains: America—Before the War” – Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet
coda / historical zoom-out - Tape fragments of speech diced into string ostinati. Ends the set the way Glass Museum began—but now human voices are literal shards, stitching private stories to global timelines.
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