Issue 69: Spring 2025 is here!

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to share some exciting new writing to help you welcome in the warm weather in Issue 69: Spring 2025!

In fiction, check out "You Are Contractually Obligated to Withstand Violence" by Shaelin Bishop, "What You Are Looking For Is What Is Looking" by Glenn Clifton, and "Marmot" by Nour Abi-Nakhoul.

Over in poetry, read "Nomenclature" by Sneha Madhavan-Reese, "The Provincial Lunatic Asylum (1850s)" and "Walls (1860s)" by Sally O'Keeffe, "plot in which you lived…" by Ernest Ohia, and "Waterstrider’s Honeymoon Cruise" by Cassandra Myers.

This issue's essays are "Apartment Block Archives" by Audrey Popa and "Before We Begin" by Britt Gilman.

Read an interview of Farah Ghafoor by Summer Farah and of Zilla Jones by Tamara Jong.

Last but not least, our reviews section includes three great pieces: "Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts" by Sanna Wani, "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthum" by Miriam Richer, and “'I’m not leaving / without you': Forging Joy in Natalie Lim’s Elegy for Opportunity" by Amanda Proctor.

Happy reading!

- The Editors