The Twice-Defined Other | Dina Hendawi

"She needs to find a clinic, far from her neighborhood, to get the infection treated. She thinks through every facet of her plan. Her hijab will make her conspicuous. She must remove it and hide in plain sight..."

Selected Poems | Nate Logan

"Dan will raise his right hand, slap it against my opposite hand, and say “Flesh collision!” without a hint of humor. / Beatrice walks up and down the aisles of the outlet store pausing only to tap her feet along with the occasional dated earworm..."

Untitled Poem | Mykyta Ryzhykh

"air swallows me and I get inside the pump / it's dark but dry / my soul's cheeseburger is stripped of any sauce / I want to drink / this pump pumps air after a nuclear explosion..."

Twenty-Four, Candidly | Violet Piper

"you start to repeat your stories; / you sound like your mom / you feel so grateful for your mom you can't stand it..." Violet Piper's work has appeared in Slate, The Blue Mountain Review, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere.

Selected Prose Poems | William Doreski

"A family of mice becomes a single garter snake. A woodchuck becomes a pangolin. An elephant becomes a herd of Jersey cows. You ask how it works. A machine creates a powerful vacuum..."

The Guest | Mackenzie Singh

"Living in a mattress is not so bad. I am a dream weaver, a puppeteer of dormant thoughts. No, that’s no good. Let me instead describe to you the room..." New fiction by Mackenzie Singh.