ISSUE 13.2 SPRING 2026 welcome issue contents > fiction > nonfiction > poetry > art contributors interviews our editors Lis Anna-Langston“My uncle lived an entire imaginary life right in front of me and even more bizarrely, I lived it with him.” Kevin Bain“Sincerity is key. I had to let myself feel enthusiastic and excited and disappointed all over again, then write from that place without adult filters.” Brian Wallace Baker“The moment the incident happened, I felt so ashamed, and that shame lingered over me for a long time.” Paul Bartolo“Eventually, the process reduces itself until there’s only one thing left. The end.” Riyad Carey“This poem was really just me having a bone to pick with the suburbs.” Matt Coonan“He’s playing along. He’s letting the boy live in a life without death a while longer.” Bruce Crown“We leave pieces of ourselves in the places we’ve travelled, and those fading memories become ghosts of who we used to be.” Elizabeth Fogle“I needed a way to explore the self-as-subject without the voice being too sentimental.” Dan Garner“A successful story is one where that mysterious logic appears, usually born of the voice.” Katherine Gekker“The snakes cast a spell on me, as they often do.” J.M.C Kane“High pressure is masking—the tight-fist sky, the shallow breath.” Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi“All things seem to point towards the very thing you are trying not to look at” Emi Miyaoka“Nature stands apart from human intention or assertion; it exists as an undeniable reality.” Mrityunjay Mohan“The character often loses himself in his thoughts, and the way he interacts with the other characters is often like a more guarded continuation of those thoughts.” Ardjun Razdan“It is impossible for me to see myself in the process of writing, just as it is impossible to observe the mirror in which you are being observed.” Timothy Ryan“Joe has never gone away. He fades and comes back. Especially in moments of fear or anger.” Judith Shapiro“Grief can emerge unexpectedly, days, weeks, years later, in a whiff of smoke, the sound of a footstep, the sight of a dandelion poof floating by.” Trae Stewart“It’s more like a zoom out; from the skull, to the heart, to the wristband. Each story asks the same question, ‘who narrates your suffering?’ and each answers it from a different distance. ” Joel Streicker“The choices often impose themselves during the writing—something seems to flow in a direction that I might not have contemplated at the beginning and I try to ride it. It doesn’t always work out, but that’s life and writing.” Shawn Sumrall“Impressions’ is, among other things, about friends losing connection over time.” Faith Thiebaud“Yes! Definitely dark– part of the reason it has taken so long to get published, ha.” Matt Vekakis“Here, objectively, is mortality: will you sit and look?”
