Happy Capybara Publishing · A Literary Zine
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Issue 02 · June 2026

Slow Water

Stillness is also a current.

Issue two moves at the speed of a wide, flat river. Four stories about patience and its costs — a town that floods politely, a mapmaker's daughter who refuses the family trade, a field guide for people who are already gone, and the long art of staying put.

Table of contents

  1. 01 Slow Water Annick Laurent A town that floods every spring, politely, and the woman who refuses to call it a disaster.
  2. 02 The Cartographer's Daughter Quits Dot Kowalczyk Four generations of mapmakers, and the one who put down the pen.
  3. 03 A Field Guide to Leaving Sam Whitlock Identifying marks, habitat, and seasonal range of the recently departed.
  4. 04 The Patience of Floods Pilar Reyes ✦ members A dam inspector, a drowned town, and a bell that still rings under the reservoir.

Prefer paper? This issue exists as a printed zine, risograph cover and all.