Editor’s Introduction 
Geoffrey Gatza

In this issue of BlazeVOX, we do not seek definitive answers but instead dwell within the generative power of questions. With a subtle, minimal aesthetic, the works gathered here engage with the idea of public space—those shared, open zones where anyone might act, gather, intervene, or simply exist. We turn our attention to spaces that resist private ownership and economic utility, spaces that are, by nature, marginal, overlooked, and uncommodified.

The contributions to this issue thrive on the accidental, the coincidental, and the unexpected. They construct surprising analogies and revise traditional literary narratives through moments where fiction and reality intersect. Dreamlike in their logic, these pieces allow tropes to merge, meanings to shift, and timelines to collapse—where past and present, memory and immediacy, cohabit the same page. Time, as ever, remains a central axis of inquiry.

As we search for new ways to read the city, the texts assembled here engage with post-colonial critique, avant-garde and postmodern aesthetics, and radical democratic thought. In doing so, they offer acts of resistance—formal, political, poetic—against the prevailing logic of late capitalism.