Bus Stop | Samantha Steiner

"...if you saw me you’d just think, hey, there’s this kid with curly hair and big headphones and maybe he’s on his way to school, and maybe he’s a skateboarder..."

Selected Flash | Peg Alford Pursell

"Unable to sleep, I read the ancient texts while the skies lighten to day, yellow with smoke from the burning redwoods..." Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc, 2019) and Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow (WTAW, 2017).

Best Forgotten Monsters | Alex Dannemiller

"I’d taken hole in the small ceiling corner away from the door. Kept myself wedged above the lumpy, yellow car. I became intimate with the decayed roof above me and the grain of the wood beams..."

Atween the Wind an the Wa | John Aberdein

"Cranreuch cauld wis the tarmac bauld, / The gled i the laverock's sheddie; / Ah masel for the haar-tooteroo / Wis tuckt up in ma beddie..." John Aberdein's novels have won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Fiction of the Year Award.

Selected Poems | Christine Tierney

"i found out on the day i was thick-wet-heat / i found out on the day i tussled through the weeks and morphed into sunflower..." Christine's poetry has been published in Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore, Permafrost, and elsewhere.

Don’t Sleep! | Liliya Gazizova

"One shouldn’t sleep at dawn / As a ground squirrel in its hole. / One should be a red-haired devil / Crawling / Along the night streets of Kazan..."