Shirt and Tie | Laurel DiGangi

"Her torso was bent forward, her nose almost touching the tabletop. She made small, frantic motions with her fingers, as if rushing to knit a sweater for a pet gerbil or create a tiny tapestry for a dollhouse wall..."

The Third Floor | Emma Wilson-Kanamori

"Something is wrong with the third floor. I have nightmares about it..." Emma Wilson-Kanamori is a writer, artist, and dancer who grew up in Japan and currently resides in Scotland.

Six Words | Hayley McCullough

Hayley McCullough is finishing up her PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York). She recently published a mini-chapbook through Cholla Needles.

Four Konstrukce | Joshua Calladine-Jones

Joshua Calladine-Jones is the literary-critic-in-residence at Prague Writers' Festival. His pamphlet of poems, Constructions, which features "Four Konstrukce," is to be published by tall-lighthouse in 2021.

I drove to west virginia when the weather was warm | Matthew Dettmer

"josh is telling a story about wearing night vision goggles in afghanistan and 'I’m proud to be an american' is playing for the second time maybe the third time on the speakers in the bar..."

Things Begin to Happen at a Faster Rate | Kara McMullen

"Even before it started, the journey felt like a snake: something undulating and coiling and predatory. Later it felt like—nothing. It began on a humid-thick and warm spring day with a woman sitting on the wagon facing west..."