New Fiction in Contrapuntos X!

Good news! Contrapuntos X is now available. It features “Nature Under Constraint and Vexed,” a single-sentence fiction of mine that limns the liminality, precarity, and atomization of life in/within the Capitalocene-of-the-crime. And yes, the title is from Part III of Francis Bacon’s “Plan of the Work.”

Here are editors Aimée Mendoza and Lucía Orellana’s remarks about “Nature Under Constraint and Vexed”:

A story of approximately three thousand two hundred words told without periods or paragraphs; the flow of thought of a man who, at a crucial moment in his life, gives an account of it in an accelerated tour through the recesses of his memories, his desires, his aspirations; all this interspersed with the present and acute moment and its effects on his body, his mind, his existence. John Madera offers us in “Nature Under Constraint and Vexed” an intense narrative exercise, controlled and at the same time enriched with vertiginous rhythm and language.

Thanks, Lucía Orellana and Aimée Mendoza! And thanks, Marcos Pico Rentería and Ángel M. Rañales!