Hidden forces

a multi-media literary magazine

What do each color mean to us, and what do they represent? Which colors surround us and what do they indicate? How do these colors affect our emotions and perceptions? Are there colors we've not yet discovered? Is your purple my purple, or is your purple my red, and your red my purple? 


Think about other creative approaches to color. ex) Synesthesia

The optics of our vibrant and ostentatious aspiration. Penetrate the plane of "colors" not just as a paint filling in the blanks, but as layers growing atop of everything.

Anything related to nature. (ex, the rain, the stars, the moon, the trees, the flowers, the mammals, the sea, the sea mammals, etc) Think about nature as a force that underlines our existence.

Or, think about our relationship to nature and how that might have changed over time. (ex, natural disasters, climate change, endangered species, loss of habitat...)

Think about the context of time and space, and how that might affect us. Explore both the past and the future, and look at how some of our common notions or modes of thought might have been formed, and how they might mature and progress with time.

This theme is well suited to sci-fi: What might altering these elements(time, space, or both) be like? Are you a time-traveling alien? A mysterious teleporter? Is time slower for you than everyone else?

Love, not only in the romantic sense. Think of all the different types of love: Storge, Agape, Ludus, Mania, Pragma, Philautia, etc. Maybe you'd like to write about your love for your family, your dog, your favourite food, your cactus- whatever it is, get creative!

Simply about who colors the world we see: who chooses the shades, who made the hues, and who we are, living in the midst of beautiful turmoils and ugly flashings of life. About the secret pulls and pushes leering and following our step.

From the literal absence of noise following a loud "shhhh!" to an abstract representation of intentional or contrived silence in literature. Consider the oppressive forces that might silence a person, or a group of people, and examine why that might be. The failure to address, or speak on, a certain subject, is also a type of silence.

Think: How does silence operate as a force? Does silence hold any power? Why might someone become, or stay, silent?