Three pieces, in particular, demonstrate the anthology’s range and ambition:
The anthology’s title is not merely decorative. Editor (who took the helm from founder Marcus Roan after Volume 3) curates the 22 pieces—a mix of short fiction, lyric essays, and hybrid-form poetry—with an obsessive eye for what she calls “the larval state.” These are not stories of triumphant heroes or clean resolutions. They are narratives of gestation: messy, opaque, and vulnerable. COCOON anthology 5
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O’Malley, a herpetologist turned poet, offers a non-linear memoir of his late transition. He interweaves the biology of arthropod ecdysis (molting) with his own experience of shedding a deadname. The essay’s power lies in its granular detail: the calcium buildup before a crab molts, the softness of the new exoskeleton, the hour of supreme vulnerability. It is a masterclass in using the natural world to map the human interior.