Editor’s Note

FROM CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF MELISSA ROTERT & KRISTIN HOULIHAN

Microfiction

T.L. TOMLJANOVIC | BEFORE THE GROUND GETS TOO HARD

T.L. TOMLJANOVIC | OTHER MOMS STAND IN AN IMPENETRABLE CIRCLE OF BACKS

ROMY MORREO | AFTER THE LAST ABDUCTION

ROMY MORREO | INFESTATION

EMILY HALL | WHAT REMAINS

Flash Fiction

KIRA COLEMAN | AN ORDINARY OCCURRENCE IN THE KITCHEN

JEFF RADWELL | GYPSUM AND DUST

LM FONTANES | TALK TO ME

DC DIAMONDOPOLOUS | 1969: THE STONEWALL INN

COLE BEAUCHAMP | WHEN MY DEAD AUNT JOINS ME ON THE PROTEST MARCH

RACHEL RODMAN | MY BIRTH STORY

KELLY MURASHIGE | EVEN A WORM

MELISSA RUTH ROTERT | ALL ABOUT [INSERT HUSBAND HERE]

Poetry

JOE COY | RUMBLE

LAURA HANNETT | ALECTO

CANDACE KRONEN | DEFIANCE IS SACRED WORK

LY FAULK | I JUST WANT TO TALK

KAREN BAUMGART | A POEM IN WHICH I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING ANGRY

SHAUN JEX | RABBIT, RUN

TERRI WATROUS BERRY | PUNISHMENT

AMANDA TROUT | ICE MURDERS A POET BLOCKS FROM WHERE POLICE MURDERED GEORGE FLOYD

LOUIS FABER | I SWORE

GRANT SHIMMIN | THE NEWS

KRISTIN HOULIHAN | IF I DIE FROM THIS

Creative Nonfiction

KATE CHOI | HIGH-FUNCTIONING

MEGAN HANLON | LISTEN

LUCINDA GUARD CROFTON | DROWNING

FLAVIA BRUNETTI | CAVITIES

LIANA | DON’T BE AFRAID OF ME I CAN’T REACH THE TOP SHELF

Accompanying Art

NEHA SAMPAT | AWEDACITY

NEHA SAMPAT | MIGRAINE TRIGGER, MD

JOANNE MACIAS | A THOUSAND WISHES

CATHERINE McGUIRE | YOU KNEW I WAS A SNAKE

CATHERINE McGUIRE | LION DOG

DAVE MADELONI | RAGE AGAINST THE REGIME

JUDY ASSAAD | TREATING MAKES MORE MONEY THAN CURING

DMITRY BORSHCH | “BUSH-MALIKI NEWS CONFERENCE. BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 2008”

DOREN ROBBINS | DANCE STUDENT CAUGHT IN A MISSILE STRIKE

DOREN ROBBINS | AFTER A BOMBING

DOREN ROBBINS | BLUES FOR IRAN, GAZA, LEBANON, UKRAINE IN RUBBLE

EILEEN KINEKE | BECOMING

EILEEN KINEKE | LISTEN

MELISSA RUTH ROTERT | WHO WILL NOTICE THE REAPER?