If we are all the dead conversing with the dead, I like to think the language we use to bridge the space between us is called music.

Preorders are Open for Issue X: Elegy

In this issue we look back on the years stolen or borrowed, hold our grief open & stand very still in the strain of song that washes from its depths.

Introducing Elegy

Welcome to elegy: the last dropped petal—the mirror in mourning—the light still on for what once was beautiful.

Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersAugust 6, 2021

From the Editor: The Synaesthesia Issue

I am slow to reach for music these days, maybe because music doesn’t feel out of reach anymore.

Half Mystic returns in full colour—welcome, dear songbirds, to the preorder period for the synaesthesia issue.

Half Mystic is committed to upholding the highest standards of originality, integrity, & literary citizenship in our authors & the work we publish.

Half Mystic began as a grand experiment in championing work that lives between literature & song, hope & fight, horizon & sea.

Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.

Introducing Synaesthesia

Welcome to synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice; the song-scent wafting on wind; the tongues of memory & light.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 4, 2020

From the Editor: The Sforzando Issue

Nothing in this place has ever been abandoned. If we sound desperate, that’s only because we know what our hands can do.