Eating My One-Year-Old’s Leftover Smash Cake

Nonfiction by Felicity Landa

Séance

Fiction by Katlyn Minard

The first time I held your hand, we only did it to communicate with the dead.

Home Exorcist Kit

Fiction by Laura Burnes

Portrait of a Human Canvas

Fiction by Vivian Susko

The first was my neighbor, greasy and cruel. He was always spitting on the dirt at his feet and swearing at his friends through the phone. Until the day that he grew bored of these things. He trained his eyes on the…

My Chamber of Venus

Poetry by Aura Martin

I Swore I’d Never Come Here

Fiction by Miranda Nayak

I swore I’d never come here. The building in front of me is a dingy, pathetic-looking excuse for something that is supposed to be a clinic. The state of the building doesn’t surprise me. Time travel has never been…

Distance

Creative Nonfiction by Donnia Harrington

My chest was bothering me that day. It was the first noticeable time that I could sense a disturbance, a dull thud that ached the moment I woke up. We were going to the DMZ — the demilitarized zone — the 38th parallel…

The Extraordinary Power of Soap

Nonfiction by Aurora Biggers

I stepped under the green O’Reilly Auto Parts sign — a physical manifestation of my apprehension to enter the building. “Step in, take a right, go down the first aisle, should be on my right,” I…

Good Girls Swallow*

Poetry by Rose Hennigan

If there’s one thing I know, it’s this;
If you want a boy to like you,
Then play the fool. Act like a little girl.

An Ode to the Water; a Meditation on Survival

Poetry by Kelsey Wartelle