POETRY

Study a Cause

By KIMBERLY QUIOGUE ANDREWS

Its seclusion, its great swaths of stillness. Wakefulness in amber.

MICRO

The Matter

By KATIE UMANS

What is the child / in the moonlight?

INSIGHT

Comfort Nausea

By SOFIE RILEY

I’m in the sunroom of my Minneapolis apartment when my mother tells me she’s been watching Heartstopper.


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12 Oct 2026

BACK OF THE ENVELOPE

The front cover for the speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE. It has a background like the night sky, dark blue and subtly dappled with white spots. The words DEAD BOYS in all-caps and in bright yellow text are near the top and IN SPACE in the same format is near the bottom. Next to IN SPACE is the author’s name, Sara Youngblood Gregory, not in all-caps and a slightly smaller font but still yellow. In the center of the cover are two, red and very muscley men positioned around a red moon or planet. The men near the top left of the moon points downwards towards the moon/planet, and the man in the lower right has his right leg extended and his left hand poised with his fingers touching his forehead.

Excerpt from DEAD BOYS IN SPACE

By SARA YOUNGBLOOD GREGORY

alone but for each other, these exiles put a stopper on one of the most aggressive illnesses in the history of mankind

9 Oct 2026

ESSAY

Quest for the Slappy Man-Hug

By LANE MICHAEL STANLEY

I’m starting to know these guys—so now, when they see me, this parade of tatted-up, newly sober straight men come at me with the Slappy Man-Hug.

7 Oct 2026

POETRY

Image shows flowers with white petals floating on clouded white water. The image is black and white. Many flowers float upwards with their petals and centers showing, but some float on their sides with their petals folded in. Some petals and stems are faded and half-submerged in the water. The flowers are clustered in the bottom left of the image. Faded imprints of other flowers can be seen on the water.

PART(UR)ITION

By LUCY XIANG-FU WAINGER

The girl with no face / perches / just behind my face.

5 Oct 2026

MICRO

A photo of a university campus with a blue, cloudy sky and light brown brick buildings. There are winding sidewalk paths with few people milling about. Across the entire landscape, pink cherry blossom trees, their canopies in full bloom. Photo is by Lokesh B Masania on Unsplash.

Resplendent

By KATHRYN HARGETT-HSU

in verdant stud
of my contused eye

2 Oct 2026

FICTION

Orange flames lick up from black rocks with green foliage in the far background.

Spectacular Barbecue

By MADELYN KYE

The Spectacular Barbecue is even better than a party, because everyone is coming, even Uncle John, Aunt Mary, and Luke, all the way from California.