ISSUE 01 · BETWEEN CEASEFIRES
Issue 01 ·
Between Ceasefires
Between Ceasefires is Lunara Nether’s first issue, gathering poems, short fiction, and a special feature that hold love and devastation in the same breath. From hotel buffets and war-torn streets to attics, forests, and flooded cities, these pieces stay with the body—its hungers, its griefs, its small, stubborn hope while refusing to look away from the damage that surrounds it.
What to Expect in Issue 01
• Poetry that traces love, fear, and survival through hotel buffets, war‑torn streets, quiet houses, and smoke‑cleared skies.
• Short fiction that moves from drained, colourless worlds to secret letters, claustrophobic friendships, and lives pushed to the edge.
• Voices that stay close to the body—its hungers, its griefs, its stubborn hope while refusing to look away from the damage that surrounds it.
Issue Highlights
Begin with “Slaughter at the Sandman Buffet,” where a hotel breakfast becomes a dark, unforgettable meditation on victory, hunger, and the quiet cost of war. Then move to “Melancolour,” a short story that drags two boys through a drained, sepia world until colour and the price of seeing it finally returns.
Together, they sketch the arc of this issue: from the intimate violence of the everyday to the moment the world cracks open and refuses to go back to what it was.
“Slaughter at the Sandman Buffet,” by Doug Raphael was first published by Still Here Magazine on June 5th 2026.
THE PERSPECTIVE
From the Editors
Between Ceasefires gathers poems, stories, and one quietly uncanny novella that all circle the same question: what does love look like when safety is not promised? Across hotel buffets and war-torn cities, attics, forests, and flooded streets, these pieces stay with the body—its hungers, its griefs, its stubborn, ordinary tenderness.You’ll move from battlefield breakfasts to colourless worlds suddenly split open, from secret letters and haunted friendships to boys on the run and a city where even dogs become a kind of mirror. Together, they form a first issue that is less an answer than a long, steady look at how we keep feeling anyway.
