“IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.”
- Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

A mirror is smashed into a thousand glittering pieces that each reflect our psychic environment. It is the contention of The Call that the genre of Speculative Fiction might show reflections from far beyond the cosplay and role play addled world of received ideas. Beyond sci fi, fantasy or horror, the form should be ever prepared to take on those subjects whose very existence remains beyond our collective ken. We hereby present our inaugural issue as an attempt to gather together a few scattered shards, thus glimpsing what the realist majority cannot ever hope to see. The view outside our window may be dismal and grey but there is another world inside the head that contains infinite wonder. The Call is but a neatly folded and stapled together map of this fractured land.

Ben Robinson, editor April 19 2019.

Cover: Kirsty Stevens - Charcot Brain Skull, 2016