Rob Potter Collective Gravities by Chloe N. Clark, word west, $15 paperback, 2020 Reviewed by Ian MacAllen Few people would have predicted a global pandemic would plunge the world into a collective isolation with the specter of death threatening at every moment. Yet Chloe N. Clark’s debut story collection, Collective Gravities , offers a prescient examination of these anxieties. Several of Clark’s stories even go as far as manifesting the sense that she somehow anticipated t

by Chloe N. Clark Ivan Bilbin What myths we make of men who fight. How we prize their hands, their fast feet. In stories of Baba Yaga, she’s a witch, the big bad at the end of it all. But there is kindness there to, in how she keeps the tongues of liars, how she cradles the memories of the dead every night, rocks them to sleep. A man who can make himself disappear is just doing what every woman has already learned. How to vanish is not as hard as how to unvanish, to step into