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We didn’t start the fire.
This article is part of the October 2026 issue of Brief Ecology. Purchase this issue:
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Originally published in Reckoning 9
The smell of burning wood is pouring in the open window over my bed, filling my nos...
The Fires That Haunt Us
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In This Issue
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Nonfiction
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Introduction: The Fires That Haunt Us | Ben Lockwood
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We didn’t start the fire | Jacqueline St.Pierre
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Who Returns To Paradise | Nicole Lambrou
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An Intervie...
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Guided Reading Course
I’m very excited to announce that Brief Ecology is offering its first course: A guided reading of Murray Bookchin’s The Philosophy of Social Ecology. For those unfamiliar with Bookchin’s work, this will be a great introduction to the writin...
Reclamation
The following short story from The Rotting Leaf is part of the September 2026 issue of Brief Ecology
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They returned him to Willow as twelve pounds of amended soil in a biodegradable sack, along with a sapling of a...
Eco Review | Space-Time-Nature-Gender Dialectics (or new from the old) in Joe Koch's Take Him
The following article is from the September 2026 issue of Brief Ecology
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When done well, short stories do what novels rarely can: deliver an emotionally and artistically resonant narrative in a single reading expe...
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