Cover art by Star Wise
Interview with Star Wise

Kathleen Culver

• Night Watch

Jonah Stokes

• Leaf Effervescence
• School Morning Bus Stop in Burnsville, Mississippi
• Tiktoker says Mothman should ‘take care’ of Dilda D. Dandridge

Burleson

• Forever Treasured

Arkansas Reynolds

• Show Me the Galaxy in Your Cold, Dead Eyes
• Burning

Haley Osier

• Houses I’ve Never Been In
• Prodigal means reckless; I couldn’t have been more careful

Bleah Patterson

• Fuck duty, Emily, let’s be two peas in this pod
• My therapist instructs me to make a ‘nervous system menu’ for the next time my amygdala hijacks my frontal cortex

Ronnie Sirmans

• The Moment When I Knew

Aaron Badida

• Jays
• Psalm to the Creator During Pride

Shelley Ettinger

• I Think My Tushy is Telling Me Something

Haylee Mormon

• Southern Rite of Passage

Eli Yoichi Leadham

• Spare Ribs

Nick DeMartino

• 1,825 Days

Deo Lail

• Greasy

Allison Kinney

• Investigating variations in the density of negative space between leaves, Pycnantbehum sp.
• Against Panic Upon Waking