“The Fruit We Bear” by Megan Baxter – Sequestrum
“Successful Auditions” by Timothy Boudreau – Bluestem Magazine
“Poor Beast” by Lily Holloway – Sundog Lit
“Purgatory” by Amy DeBellis – XRAY
“The Papermoon” by Joel Hans – HAD
“Boxwood” by Katherine Hill – The Common
“Sleeping Cats Lie” by Catherine Roberts – Ghost Parachute
“La Vieja” by Oso Guardiola – La Piccioletta Barca
“Dating the Ice Cream Man but He Doesn’t Know I Have a Thing for Fire” by Catherine Roberts – Trampset
“My Good Omens Keep Eating Each Other” by Tucker Leighty-Phllips – The Adroit Journal
“Epilogue” by Joachim Glage – Palisatrium’s Short Story Substack
“Friday Night” by Gwen E. Kirby – Wigleaf
“Buddy Line” by Inbal Gilboa – The Fabulist
“Cameron, Asher, Jonah, Jack” by Jackie Sabbagh – Smokelong Quarterly
“Cafe Loup” by Ben Lerner – The New Yorker
“Black Women are Being Erased in Book Publishing” by Jennifer Baker – Electric Lit
“The Mouse” by James Gianetti – Smokelong Quarterly
“Homeboy” by Nancy Garcia – The Masters Review
“Safety Plan” by Suzanne Richardson – Rejection Letters
“How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga” by S.M. Hallow – Baffling
“Shell” by Katie Coleman – Smokelong Quarterly
“On Your Mark” by Natalie Sack – Random Sample
“Her Deleted Scenes” by Catherine O’Brien – Fractured Lit
“The Gospel of Blood” by Orlantae Duncan – Rappahannock Review
“The Punch” by Tiffany Hsieh – Cease, Cows
“Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a Tiger Hides in a Puffy Jacket” by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh – Smokelong Quarterly
“A Dictionary of How Things Break” by Nora Studholme – The Masters Review
“Swimming for Shore” by Christy Kolaya – Sequestrum
“The Mothers in the Woods” by Allison Wisdom – Catapult
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