ISSUE THREE

ANTICIPATION

June 15, 2024

young boy in the right foreground midshot with a baketball coming off his fingers towards the net on the left of photo. Sunset in the background of the basketball court.

Original photograph by Francois Bereaud


TRAJECTORIES


Editor’s Note

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

Fiction

SAM CHRISTIE | BARDARBUNGA

CHARLES PINEDA | THINGS CAN CHANGE

KAREN GROSE | 180 SECONDS

JENN HAASE VETTER | MILLER, AUGUST

DELPHINE GAUTHIER-GEORGAKOPOULOS | THE LAST CLICK

FRANCOIS BEREAUD | SNOW. FOOTBALL. 9 LIVES.

KRISTIN KOZLOWSKI | AFTER THE DIVORCE

NATALIE NEE | MERINGUES AND MEMORIES

Poetry

ALLISON ZACZYNSKI | OCTOBER GEESE

LILLY KATE DIAZ | 木洩れ日 (KOMOREBI)

ALLISON FRADKIN | SOAR SPOT

THEODORE JAMES | HRT

SAM “ONE-WHEEL” O’NEIL | DISTANCE

SHARON SCHOLL | ALMOST

J.I. KLEINBERG | ODE TO HANGING ON

CHARLY CHOW | NEON HOURGLASS

ELIJAH WOODRUFF | THE BOY’S SONNET

MICHAEL DUFRESNE | EXPRESS

H. TINSLEY | PERSEIDS AND GRANNY, STAGE FOUR

ESMÉ KAPLAN-KINSEY | TIME (THE REVELATOR)

ELIZABETH GAUFFREAU | AT THE GREYHOUND STATION

GRETCHEN FILART | AFTER A NINE-HOUR BROWNOUT, OUR VILLAGE CHEERS & LOOKS LIKE A MOUTH

DEVON WEBB | INELEGANT THING

JENNIFER SPURGEON | EXPECTANT

ALEX CARRIGAN | SAY SOMETHING

NATALYE CHILDRESS | FORETASTE SPACE

DAWN LEVITT | FLYING STANDBY

Creative Nonfiction

EILEEN NITTLER | BOX OF FEAR

GRANT SHIMMIN | THE ULTRASOUND

KATE DUSTO | COUNTDOWN TO SUMMER BINGO, TEACHER EDITION

REBECCA EGAN | THERE IS A GHOST

BETH YOAKUM | BEFORE-AFTER

JOY KRINSKY | IN ONE BOX

JOEL GLOVER | BREADWINNER