The Gotham Guillotine

About Issue #1

Each piece in our debut issue is a stick of dynamite. Your eyes, a match.

First on the scaffold is Hameed Mourani’s clash of past and present: “Home Security Systems Killed The Gentleman Thief.” Don’t lie. We’d all pay to see Arsène Lupin duke it out with a Ring Camera. 

Evan Mclean’s Innsmouth Emporium is hilarious and biting like an evil clown. If you’ve ever been subjected to an employee training video, you’ll relate with this one act joy ride.

After that, we’ve got Halley McDonough’s “Norah and the Johns”: former stripper tries to go corporate. Badass protagonist, badass prose. 

Kathryn R. Reiber graced us with her “Ode to Winter Solstice”: a hazy trip through beloved Gotham streets. 

Up next is a tale of forbidden love in the time of class war: Dan Dellechiaie’s “Bright Purple Like Nothing Mattered.” 

Following that, we have Eric Martín’s hard-hitting poem “Tricks.”

Then there’s Ameer Malik’s “Decommissioned”: two contractors, one haunted CIA black site. 

The 2 Train can be just as cursed as a black site and is the setting of Bascom Noah’s razor-sharp “The Greatest Prize in Sport.” 

We’ve got some tabletop RPG lore. Yeah, you read that right, comrades. Elias Everett’s “The Pantheon of Perseus” is on deck.

Grab your tinfoil hats because we got an excerpt from Will Verdeur’s forthcoming untitled conspiracy novel. 

And then X.Z. sucker punched us with their poem “cant.” 

Finally, we have an essay by the artist whose art decks out many of pieces in this issue: “painting at the edge” by Natasha Zinos. 

Many thanks to all the contributors for their excellent submissions and to Elias Everett, Line Lizard, Hameed Mourani, and Natasha Zinos for their fantastic art. 

And thank you, dear reader, for checking us out. Your support is greatly appreciated. Make sure to pass us along to your comrades.