Now into its second issue, the publication started “as a way of breathing new life into the orphans and bastards of the creative process,” says Roderick Stanley who co-edits the journal with Mark Blacklock, “both our own, and those of our circles of friends and collaborators.

“We both felt that there was a lot of interesting work out there that for one reason or another had not seen the light of day,” he continues, “and that it might be rewarding to collect these pieces together and let their juices and flavours intermingle and enhance each other, so to speak.”

For example, the fiction included within the issues often takes the form of fragmented texts rather than singular stories with beginnings and ends, says Stanley. It also includes song lyrics, YouTube comments, archival materials, manifestos, poems, diaries, bits of lost interviews, recipes, even an opera.