FUSION Magazine

My Grandmother the Alien

by Luis Lascano

Environmental Crisis

by Allison Healy

Allison Healy is a Boston artist whose work has worked with both faculty and students at Berklee and whose work has frequently been featured in FUSION.

A Strange Encounter

by Michael Hazani

I’m standing in a crowded street, a few feet away from a staircase leading down to the underground station. People blur by, walking purposefully, avoiding eye contact. The sun is already high in the sky; it must be noontime, or close to it. I lift my gaze and stare at the sun for five or six seconds, then shut my eyes, and a painful, bright circular shape is engraved in my eyelids. I feel dehydrated, I have a headache, and I want to find some shade and perhaps a bottle of water. Read more »

The Hero

by Sue Buzzard

CREATION

The Hero was born on a cold winter’s morn in December.  The wind was blisteringly frigid and blowing to shake the eaves from the roof.  The weather was too dangerous to go out or for a doctor to come to the house, so the Hero erupted from his mother’s womb into the strong cradling arms of his father.  He did not cry, but opened his golden eyes and gazed serenely up at his dumbstruck parents. Read more »