Reading the stories for this issue has been a reassuring reminder that there is still space for humanity, if we choose to keep it there for ourselves. I'm grateful for the authors in this issue, and grateful for their work. It feels like an act of defiance...

Humans writing stories, humans creating art, and humans connecting and sharing that work with the world. We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world...

- from the Introduction

In this issue

• "Daisies for Going Out, Pansies to Return Home" by Amy Power Jansen
• "Going to sea, mother" by Luscha Makortoff
• "Underhill Wines" by Tanya Pond
• "The Accidental" by K.M. Veohongs
• "Top Five Places to Worship Him, Most Terrible" by L. Fox
• "To the Moon, Not Back" by Emma Francois
• "Grandma and the Krampus" by Teresa Milbrodt
• "For Love and Country" by Yelena Crane
• "The Price of Gold" by Sanya Dimova
• "Women of Nowhere" by Lyra Bird
• "Conveyance" by Isobel Mackenzie"
• HeartsEase" by Brittany Hague
• "The Three Songs" by Gio Clairval
• "Where the Wind Sleeps" by Emmie Christie
• "Terra" by Laura Stone
• "Self-Portrait as ChatGPT" by Sarah Chin
• "The Penitent" by M. J. Klimmek
• "A Spell for Summer" by Robin Cassini
• "The Visitor" by Frances Koziar

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