CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
What an Abyss Will Open
Alyssa Quinn
essay
No Race of Monsters
Thomas Hrycyk
fiction
Cornell Box, “Untitled” (Contains Bluebeard, Tin Soldier, et al.)
Brooke Juliet Wonders
fiction
If I Won’t Pass This Down
Self-Portrait as Judas
Sara Moore Wagner
poetry
Return to Breakfast
Robert Lopez
essay
Brambles
DS Maolalai
poetry
Tread
Glen Pourciau
fiction
One Summer He Showed Me Mayflies
Aubade
Shedding Season
Jane Morton
poetry
The Next Chicago Police Chief Takes Actions to Address the Chicago Murder Rate
Joseph Scapellato
fiction
Roadside Monument
John A. Nieves
poetry
The Brothers Squimbop in Europe
David Leo Rice
fiction
[Set off like a ball rolling down a hill,]
Katie Berta
poetry
Days When I Imagine the Future Is the Past
Paul Guest
poetry
Crescendo
Erin Slaughter
fiction
REVIEWS
The Eyelid by S. D. Chrostowska
reviewed by Chris Via
Half by Sharon Harrigan
reviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt
Instance of Head-Switching by Teresa Milbrodt
reviewed by John David Harding
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Claire Hopple
reviewed by Laurel Shimasaki
HoodWitch by Fayalita Hicks
reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
A Sinking Ship Is Still a Ship by Ariel Francisco
reviewed by Alejandro Perez