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Few species other than humans bury their dead. A number of mammals undertake death rituals or practice forms of postmortem grieving, but few will place a body in the ground with intent. Elephants stand watch over their deceased for days. Chimpanzees have been known to carry their infant dead for months after they pass. Even dolphins and giraffes practice varied forms of mourning, but most don’t inter the bodies. Which was why the otters in the forrested backwoods of Hubbardston, Massachusetts were so important to my father’s studies.
The Ecological Impacts of Resurrection: A Field Study
, Corey Farrenkopf
What can you do when you fall in love with death? Rachel is at a protest. You are what you eat, but what are you eating? Rachel is at a protest. How do animals mourn? Rachel is at a protest. How will you mark your own passing? Rachel is at a protest. Can words die—can words be reborn? Rachel is at a protest. What if your heaven is a bike shed? Rachel is at a protest. What of the handsome ones—what of your father? Rachel has always been at a protest.
The Deadlands is a magazine that publishes short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.
Here’s what you can look forward to in the Summer 2024 issue (#35) of The Deadlands:
- Spawn Red Meat Arachnid, Chris Panatier
- The Ecological Impacts of Resurrection: A Field Study, Corey Farrenkopf
- Inverse Requiem, Abhinav
- Raising an Ancestor, Kay Mabasa
- The Self-Chosen Burial Rites of a Bunch of Twenty-Somethings, Eleora Ryan
- The Rerebirth of Slick, Stephen Kearse
- The High Priestess Falls In Love With Death, Ali Trotta
- Rachel Is At A Protest, Esther Alter
- Ask A Necromancer: Mortui Vivos Docent, Amanda Downum
- End-Of-Life, Lauren Ring
- The Handsome Men, Richard Leis
- Three Things That Happen The Night My Dad Dies, Isabel Cañas