The Machine of the Devil

Posted by Augur Blog
On May 3, 2019

By Maria Haskins Jacob is searching for the word he lost: for the sound of it, the feel of syllables and consonants and vowels in his mouth, for the noise and tremble it made in his throat and inner ear as he spoke it long ago. The sparrow is watching him. It’s perched on the […]

La Corriveau

Posted by Augur Blog
On March 14, 2019

By K.T. Bryski Here is a most peculiar object. Come closer, take a good look. See, here it is, laid out in this museum basement. It is a battered iron cage—human-shaped. At the top, there are two bent strips to enclose the head. Down here are thicker bands to surround the rib cage, the pelvic […]

Dishling

Posted by Augur Blog
On January 30, 2019

What I knew of Margaret Taft, gathered over the years from the few people on the faculty who could recall her for me, was that by nature she was no more ruthless than anyone else in the graduate program, and despite Paul Fisher's best efforts to recruit her...

zamana

Posted by Augur Blog
On January 18, 2019

By Amrita Chakraborty several hundred years ago, i knew a girl named zamana. where she lived, june marked the start of monsoon season. and she had her ways of preparing. every night, as her husband slept soundly, zamana would sit for hours in the small courtyard beyond their hut and weave baskets and thatches from thick, […]

Graphic Fiction and Cultural Inheritance: Float by Janice Liu

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 19, 2018

Graphic fiction occupies that elusive, in-between space in the imagination where story meets art. Often, it becomes a perfect portal into the speculative. Realism can easily slip into the surreal, via art, panel by panel. This is certainly true in “Float” by Janice Liu, which appears in Augur‘s issue 1.3. In “Float,” Essie encounters a […]

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