Editor’s Note

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

Microfiction

ANAXIFORMINGES | GOD

ANAXIFORMINGES | DISABUSE

ANAXIFORMINGES | CANNIBILISM IS CONFORMITY

MUTT ROUSSEAU | THE WHIM KNOCKED OUT OF HIM

ALEXIS N. MISKO | LESSONS FROM DEADHEADING

THOMAS J. MISURACA | FRAGILITY

Flash Fiction

CHRIS COTTOM | A WOMAN’S PRAYER AFTER MOVING TO MELTON MOWBRAY ON A RAINY WEDNESDAY

J.D. STRUNK | PHANTOM LIMBS

LUIS ROSA | NEVERLEARNED

ELIZABETH OHGA | INTO THE UNCOMPROMISING SHADOWS

SANAZ SHOBIKEH (NIVA NIK) | THE WATER NO ONE DRANK

IAN BROWNLIE | ECHO

GAVIN MILLER | KISSING HIS HEAD WITH SOUPY BREATH

ERIKA SPADAVECCHIA | THE COUCH

Poetry

V. BRAY | DECISIONS

DUSTIN MILLER | FOOTPRINT

JAMES HANNON | MARIPOSA

JOHN HUNTER | THREE SECONDS

AIRRION BLACKSTOCK | HAIR

SANAZ SHOBIKEH (NIVA NIK) | THE HAND THAT WROTE THE ROAD

DEVON NEAL | “NO”

SHAUN JEX | HIGHLINE

LILLIAN HOCHWENDER | TO ACTAEON, FROM HIS HOUNDS

A.J. LUXTON | PRAMIPEXOLE

Creative Nonfiction

KM KRAMER | CRISPR HISTORY, CRISPR FUTURE

PATRICK CARELLA | ANNA AND THE SETTING SUN

ZARY FEKETE | EVERY MOTHER’S SON

MAYA DALLY | I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FOOLISH GIRL

LUKE BELING | MAYBE SO MAYBE NOT

MARY ANN McGUIGAN | EARLY SIGNS OF LIFE

Accompanying Art

VANTAGE | UNTITLED

VANTAGE | UNTITLED

VANTAGE | UNTITLED

LAWRENCE PARSONS | REVELRY

EILEEN KINEKE | NOLA 2021