By Álvaro Enrigue
Translated by Brendan Riley
Augustus, Caesar Augustus, knows that Jupiter is not watching him when he pauses at the foot of the steps leading to the Senate chamber to count each one; there are seven, one for each hill. A wind, still cold and damp after blowing through the Forum, lashes his calves. The gardens have already thickened with flowers although the heavy heat of late spring is many weeks away.
The winter issue of Your Impossible Voice has arrived, featuring new work from Misty Ellingburg, Aysegul Savas, Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Álvaro Enrigue, Suzanne Heagy, Michael Pritchett, Carlos Labbé, Elizabeth Savage, Chad Hanson, Madeline Vardell, Colin Dodds, Amy Woschek Schmidt, Brian McCarty, Erik Anderson, Johnathan Harper, Phyllis Brotherton, and E.J. Evans. In addition to the amazing prose and poetry you’ve come to expect, our latest issue also includes an excerpt from a new graphic novel by Heinz Fenkl and The’ T. Nguyen. Cover art for issue 6 by Louis Staeble.