prose
Jesse Devyn Crowe | CNF | Goodbye Again
“Are you coming home, Jess?”
Jessica Fogal | fiction | Key to Happiness: An Instructional Guide
“I’m standing over the toilet in your house, watching wet ribbons of blue ink leak from the page of my list”
Julia Ruth Smith | fiction | As Full As Friendship
“He doesn’t need to be perfect.”
Mandira Pattnaik | fiction | Tone Deaf
“Wasn’t the day like dominoes, for falling over each other”
Nora Sun | CNF | Changing Room
“It went like this: In a climatic attempt for salvation, the woman threw herself onto the man’s back.”
poetry
Amanda Tumminaro | poetry | Glimpsing the Apple
“I am in a delicious plight.”
Anna McFarland | poetry | Stellar
“It’s a gluttonous, / violent thing, always taking”
b. pick | poetry | Laurasia
“I think of us like parallel lines.”
Chelsea Margaret Bodnar | poetry | man who ruined my life applies for internship at my office / man who ruined my life turned down for internship at my office / man who ruined my life sells his house & moves out of state because he can’t work in my office
“where else / would I put / my tongue / if not / in cheek”
Megan Hurtado Bloom | poetry | Cupid & Psyche Blues
“Maybe doors are unimportant when / our lock lasts forever.”
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