Lackington's 4: Institutions

Issue 4 is all about institutions. “Institution” doesn’t just mean schools, jails, and hospitals. Rituals, traditions, and laws are institutions, too. Marriage is an institution, as are religion, war, art, motherhood, and friendship, to name a few. Where you find culture, you’re bound to find institutions, so look twice at what lurks between the lines of these stories.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Stalemate, by Rose Lemberg

More Embers than Feathers Filled the Firmament, by Penny Stirling

The Harbour Bears, by Trevor Shikaze

Fertility Tree, by Recle Etino Vibal

Bonsaiships of Venus, by Kate Heartfield