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POETRY

GEORGIA DENNISON
Material Action | 8
Magellanic Cloud as Agent | 10
Discount Enterprise | 11

SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA
In Which All Migratory Birds Become Ghosts | 13
Orbit and Peril with Ghosts | 14
Tornado | 15

FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ
Maps | 16
The Book of Proverbs | 17
Lullaby | 18

VICTORIA STITT
maternal dreamscape | 19
autumn convalescence | 20
a blooded birth | 21
mourning glass | 22

G.C. WALDREP
George Rapp (I) | 23
George Rapp (II) | 25
Time, The Secret Affirmation | 27

FICTION

CAITLIN VANCE
This Is What We Know About the World | 30

HANNAH MADONNA
The Last Cigarette | 47

GEORGE SINGLETON
Why I Quit Reading | 56

NON-FICTION

AIDAN FORSTER
Self-Portrait in Six Gels | 60

J.A. BERNSTEIN
Bug | 65

HEATHER J. MACPHERSON
My Mother Screamed, but I Don’t Know What Sound It Made | 66

LUKE REITER
Before I Go | 68

HEATHER HECKMAN-McKENNA
Fall | 72

THE FRIEND

DANIEL WALLACE
On Caleb Johnson | 76

CALEB JOHNSON
The Sisters | 78

REVIEWS

SARA HEISE GRAYBEAL
The OK End of Funnytown by Mark Polanzak | 90

MATTHEW POTTS
Breath Like the Wind at Dawn by Devin Jacobsen | 94

JAEYEON YOO
The Breaks by Julietta Singh | 98

Kylan Rice | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FICTION CO-EDITORS

Paul Blom & Matthew Duncan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Elisa Faison

NON-FICTION EDITOR

Jo Klevdal

COVER DESIGN

Britnie Walston

POETRY EDITORS

Colin Dekeersgieter

MANAGING EDITOR

Ellie Rambo

INTERNS: Renata Schmidt
READERS: Emily Clemente, Kelly Copolo, Laura Crook, Olivia Harris, Katie Leonard, Grace Stroup, Maxim Tsarev, Abigail Welch