Issue One · Autumn 2026

The shelf of stories

Every ScrollStory bound into one magazine: pick a card and start scrolling — each piece is a self-contained story told in motion, with no pages deeper than its cover.

Replica demo CHINAMAXXXING The proving ground of the form — the replica demo where every scroll-story trick is laid on the table. Open story
32 scenes The Cholesterol Wars The fat debate 1950–2026: seven decades of fear, flip-flops and fried eggs, argued across 32 scenes. Open story
A chess story Letsgo Sixty-four squares, one narrative — a game told the way games remember themselves. Open story
Title sequences Saul Bass Scissors, type and jazz — a study of the man who made opening credits an art form. Open story
Kinetic stages Kinema Demo Kinetic stages embedded right in the page — motion doing the work of prose. Open story
9 songs Music Boxes Nine self-contained song pages — wind the crank and let the box play. Open story
32 scenes Kubrick A masterpiece after a masterpiece — thirteen films in forty-six years, and not one of them a rerun. Open story
11 cases They Were Right Conspiracy theories that happened to be true — eleven rumors that died of paperwork. Open story
32 scenes The Wall Masters of the movie poster — how Poland and Cuba turned the cinema wall into art, until 1989. Open story
Butler · 1935 War Is a Racket Smedley Butler's illustrated anti-war pamphlet — the most decorated Marine in America names the racket, and the cure. Open story
21 films The Camera in the Street Social cinema masterpieces — from Bicycle Thieves to I, Daniel Blake, eighty years of films that watch the street. Open story
32 reels Camera Ammo Revolutionary cinema — Eisenstein's montage to Third Cinema: the filmmakers who loaded the camera as a weapon. Open story
1920–1959 Boris Vian Trumpet, ink, and the 39-year waltz — the novelist-trumpeter who hoaxed, sang, and outlived his own ban. Open story
72 days The Seventy-Two Days The Paris Commune through its own posters, photographs and registers — and its eighty-year argument with history. Open story
Spain 1936 The Grepp Family The house that fought fascism — Gerda Grepp's dispatches from Spain and a family's thread through the Norwegian left. Open story
Science The Other Theory Cancer, mitochondria, and Thomas Seyfried's heresy — a century-old argument about what cancer really is. Open story
BDS · 2005–2026 The Boycott Ledger The movement that won — boycotts that bit, courts that ruled — and the price of the placard: the Palestine Action trials, number by number. Open story
Europe · 2022–2026 Speech on Trial Sanctions, raids and lawfare: how European states used law itself against people who spoke — for Palestine, or against the NATO story. Every claim sourced. Open story
ES · EN · 1992–2008 Things I'll Never Tell You A bilingual collage-poem from a life's loose literature — songs, letters, diaries, dreams and beautiful rubbish, pulled from the Literatura COSAS archive and set against 35 images. Open story
A prose-collage-poem Enemy of the Sun Seven civil-liberties voices — Robeson, Baldwin, Hampton, the Shakurs, Davis, Jackson — arranged as a Jenny Holzer–style electronic-text vigil, with their own voices in the scroll. Every quotation sourced. Open story
Art on trial The Judge Burned a Drawing Vienna, 1912: a hundred drawings seized as evidence, twenty-one days of prison, one drawing burned over a candle flame — and the line that outlived the judge. Open story
The first program The Enchantress of Number 1843: Ada Lovelace writes the notes that imagine computation itself — and the objection Alan Turing named and spent a famous paper dismantling. Open story
Languages as refusal Eight Characters Programming languages built as jokes, art and refusal — INTERCAL’s politeness, Malbolge’s inferno, and a hello world spelled in eight letters. Open story
France · Russia · Mexico · Haiti · Cuba Ink Against Empire The graphics that fought states: Daumier jailed for a lithograph, the Red Wedge, Posada’s penny skeletons, Haiti’s silenced engravings, Martí’s exile press. Open story
R.U.R. · 1920 Robota The play that gave the world the word robot — coined by a painter, rooted in the serf’s six months of forced labor, on Broadway within two years. Open story
Baghdad · c. 820 Dixit Algorizmi Al-Khwârizmî and the origins of algebra and algorithms — the six forms, the balancing, the completing of the square — and why your pocket speaks his name. Open story
Art history · adult themes The Secret Museum Public-domain erotica through the ages: the Willendorf limestone, the Turin papyrus, Pompeii’s locked room, the Catrina’s godfather — and the lock, which is part of the collection. Open story
The draughtsmen The Dibujantes 19th-century illustration: Doré’s inferno, Tenniel’s Alice, Punch dropping the pilot, Audubon’s turkeys and Haeckel’s jellyfish — the pencil as a memory machine. Open story
Norway · 1849–1929 Gerhard Munthe The weaver’s cartoonist: fairy-tale fantasies, the Snorri sagas, and the watercolor cartoons the looms kept asking for — from the owner’s own archive. Open story

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