The Still Point

The Still Point

Vol. IV · No. 2

The Weight of Small Rooms

Summer 2026

Genres
Short Fiction, Translation, Essay, Poetry, Experimental
Themes
Cartography, Absence, Thresholds
Notes
In translation · Speculative · Literary

Vol. IV · No. 2 — Summer 2026 · Current issue

The Weight of Small Rooms

Six pieces on the rooms we cannot leave, and the ones that will not stay measured.

“We publish sentences we cannot fully account for — the ones that leave a room slightly rearranged.”

From the editor’s letter

Contents

  1. 01Short FictionThe Cartographer's Daughter
  2. 02PoetryThree Studies in Absence
  3. 03EssayOn Reading in the Dark
  4. 04TranslationThe Ferryman's Ledger
  5. 05Short FictionA House With Two Doors
  6. 06Short FictionA Conversation with Clare Voss
  7. 07ExperimentalFluf and Fat
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