Vol. VII: “Flux” captures moments of change—gradual and sudden, subtle and profound, intensely personal and immensely public. Yet time still flows, carrying readers with it through the stages of life, through relationships, through grief, and through art. The poetry, prose, scripts, and images within these pages play off these themes and each other, speaking to us individually but also talking to each other. As you explore this issue, you’ll find those reverberations within sections, echoes across genres, and perhaps, as we did, resonances in your own life.
Vol. VII: “Flux”
Masthead
Letter from the Editors
Fiction
Rule of Thumb: Discard Everything by Laura Freudig*
It’s Daphne by Sara Landers
Holler General by Mandy Shunnarah
Little Star by Bernard Steeds*
The Dance by Kylee Webb†
Flash Fiction
Rings by Carolyn Oliver‡
A Different Kind of Smoke by Cathy Ulrich‡
Unstable Relationship by Lucy Zhang†‡
Nonfiction
Her Hypothetical by Jodi Scott Elliott*
Psychological Thriller by Charles Jensen†
The Ambush by Achiro Patricia Olwoch※※
Papi and I Have the Same Eyebrows by Tania Perez Osuna†
Poetry
Touching Myself While Pregnant by Marianne Chan*†‡
If I keep saying flowers in enough poems, I wonder if they’ll ever finally bloom by jason b crawford*
Ballet Is Never Enough by Lynda V. E. Crawford*‡
Unrequited by Stephanie Kaylor†‡
tectonic by Alejandra Medina※†
Metamorphosis by Stella Reed†
Stasha by Stella Reed†‡
Stage & Screen
Words to That Effect by F. J. Hartland
The Vault by Uma Incrocci
MaryAnne Pataki, of Allegheny County, Fits Inside a Box Now by Alec Silberblatt
Experimental Narratives
What Are You Looking For? by Zachary Guerra†
Edible Letters by Kathryn Stam
Visual Art & Comics
I Keep Looking for You by ARTARIANICA
Untitled Series by Dmitry Borshch†
Selected Photographs by Roger Camp
Selected Comics by Meg Reynolds†
Not Made to Last by Rebekah Scotland†
Selected Works by Lorna Simpson
Film
Scene Study by Nate Hapke
Malinchista by Flora Rees-Arredondo
Featuring
An Interview with Justin Chang