His Girl, Forwards and Backwards

by Randal Eldon Greene

If we'd said yes when you rang home to borrow four hundred dollars

by Gillian O’Shaughnessy

What the darkness knew

by Bill Nwonwu

The empty fork, the empty place

by Mary Harron

& men

by Jacqueline Parker

That Day

by Shofiqure Rahman

The Curator Who Counted Shadows

by Vaishnavi Pusapati

weak beans

by Barnaby Wick

The Bit Part Actress

by Jo Withers

Because you want to understand, I describe how I once wore suffering on the outside of my body

by Karen Baumgart

John

by Petra Marteleur

Pattern

by David Anson Lee

When you take a bite

by Robin Zlotnick

Things My Brother Explains With Absolute Authority

by J.M.C. Kane

Let’s go out again

by Tacilim Oréfice

On the longest night of the darkest year

by Melissa Fitzpatrick

Nine-one-one

by Sarah Freligh

You Say When the Rain Comes, it Will Be a Message From God

by Karen Baumgart

They won’t let you in

by Nora Nadjarian

A Parable of Slow Songs

by Guan Un