Quick Sips - Beneath Ceaseless Skies #248

March’s last issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies finds a pair of stories that are very much about intimate exchanges and the way that desire is used by corrupt systems to compromise and ensnare people. The stories feature characters who are trying to reach for something they want—freedom from something, mostly—and instead find that by trying to use the system to get what they want, they end up being corrupted by the system and end up unhappy and ground under its wheels. At least, until they decide to try and break free by embracing the cycles of the system, by using its own cruelties against it. These are not overly pleasant reads, but it’s a strong issue all the same. To the reviews!

Art by Stefan Meisl