Contraption is the 17th issue of Fuselit. It was edited by Ms Kirsten Irving and designed by Mr Jon Stone. It can be read page by page, or you can jump ahead to a particular piece using the links in the contents below.
The mascot for this issue is Whirr, who is a small metal man created by Aiko Harman, and who appears in his own story on page 5:
Christos Sakellaridis - Gnarled
Tara Zed - Communist Museum I, Prague, 2009
Tara Zed - Communist Museum II, Prague, 2009
Tara Zed - Near Meat Factory, Prague, 2009
Inga Vesper - Inside German Aerospace Centre's 1380 research plane. Beware face-sucking cables!
Christian Ward - Filming The Beheading of Daniel Pearl
Jacqui Saphra - The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions
Christopher Barnes - Joanna Lumley
G.B. Clarkson - Macroglossia, or: The Tongue Which Took Over
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé - Gertrude Stein’s Agnosia
Russell J. Turner - on cherche grothendieck
Dan Simpson - A Rube Goldberg Poem
Kristine Ong Muslim - Steady Glide
Joe Dunthorne - A Robin Eats A Worm
Chrissy Williams - The Zamboni Clears the Ice
Niall O’Sullivan - A dicta-phone tape found within an old hotel bedframe
Eureka, bold contemporaries! We present the magnificent CONTRAPTION!
Pistons a-go-go, lights a-flashing, this issue chuffs proudly into view, pulling behind it a train of scribbled, snapped and sung goodies!
From macabre tales of technological overload and dogs to kitchens full of wonder, via mysterious artifacts, automated celebrities and the agnosia of Gertrude Stein, it's an oscillating, steam-piping set-up of hitherto unwitnessed proportions!
Having tested your credulity on that, we urge you to explore the bonus content for this issue, which sees a cluster of top writers exploring the art in machines, creating poems from the very mechanics of everyday devices.
Nurture your curiosity, Fusefriends!