Read here. An unexpected theme stringing the pieces of this issue together is forgiveness. Merriam-Webster defines “forgive” as “to give up resentment of claim to requital; to grant relief from payment of.” Some of the characters in this issue are able to “give up” their feelings of hurt towards the hometown that poisons them...
Fiction
Julianne Carew, Overboard
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois, Uke
Mina Le, Other People’s Weddings
Rebecca Pincolini, Mouth-Breather
Abigail Wotton, I Am The Real Gecko
Nonfiction
Megan Chambers, Down-Winders
Anja Schatz, K.W.
Poetry
Lana Bella, Midnight in San Mateo’s Hospice
Susan Bruce, Ribbon 1
Brontë Pearson, Fish Hooked
Milena Petrovic, Let Me Tell You About White
Art
Cover: Laine Nixon, Zuhanden 05
Catherine Cates, Vacancy
Kyle Hemmings, Broken Sky
Midtown
Laine Nixon, Zuhanden 12
Csilla Petofi, Palette Monster