Scala Sancta by Gwen Hilton

I want you to read this.

Gwen Hilton picks at scabs you didn’t know you had. No one evokes the mediated, intimate distance between us quite like she does.

There are eight poems and one short story in here and they might make you uncomfortable. I contend that sometimes discomfort is exactly what literature is for. This is one of those times.

-         Alex Kies, publisher

Gwen Hilton is the author of Sent to the Silkworm House and Where the Breastplate Meets the Blade available from ExPat Press. She is a fiction editor at Apocalypse Confidential. She lives in Chicago.

Max Bray is an illustrator and musician and designer in Minneapolis, MN. Find him here.

SCALA SANCTA is the first KiesMart Consignment Classic, which is what I'm calling stuff other people wrote that I'm putting out.

Gwen Hilton wrote the flaming hot words.

Max Bray did the groovy cover art.

I edited it and did the layout.

File Under: Autoerotic Fictionation

Kies-Mart Consignment Classic. #1. 2024.

24 pages. 3900 words.

Black & White, illustrated throughout.

Cover: Color. 24lbs copier paper.

Innards: 20lbs copier paper.

Staplebound.