Vol. V: “Act/Break” challenges new entry points into storytelling, with pieces meticulously put together to create a whole from many parts. They dip into a moment, a day, or even years, and form an experience that leaves their characters changed. We feel them build, break, splinter, and reconnect. The beginning, the end, and the space in between—that exploration is what we wanted, and it is most certainly what we got.
Vol. V: “Act/Break”
Masthead
Letter from the Editors
Fiction
Laugh by L.※†
Ariadne by Brandon French*
A Guide to Planting Trees (with Supplementary Notes) by Lois Ann Goossen†
Wound by Alexandrine J. Ogundimu* 
You, Me, and Yahtzee! by Noelle Rose
318 Boulevard by Lucy Verlaque※
Nonfiction
Audio, Video, Cogito by Jack Bastock†
Scatter by Katie Daley
Off the Rails by Amanda Fletcher
How to Survive a Genocide by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman*
Poetry
Baby by Precious Arinze*
Humiliation by Ace Boggess
PA(IN):CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION by Adesina Brown※
Panacea by Jacob Fowler†‡
.233 Remington by luna rey hall‡
12 Movements: looking for love da, da, da by Donna Isaac
The Flower Vendors by Chloe Martinez†
Gender Reveal Party by M. McDonough*
Etymology by Dare Williams†
Stage & Screen
Spinning the Record by A.J. Bermudez
Take a Bow by Garret Jon Groenveld
Experimental Narratives
Starling by Kevin M. Flanagan
Girls Like Us by Angela Miyuki Mackintosh
Carried by Anthony R. Westenkirchner†
Visual Art & Comics
There and Lack Thereof: Impermanent Marks by Joey Aronhalt
Monday the Thirteenth by J. Burrello
Selected Comics by Chime Lama
(e)race: the persistence of desire by K. Khalfani Ra
Lost Archive Series & City Scraps by Fabio Sassi
Selected Collages by Allison Strauss
Featuring
An Interview with Amanda Fletcher