Keep your bones close. Set them in neat lines. The whale bone is connected to the plane bone. The women will not go quietly. The defiant bone is connected to the no bone. The state of things dissolves. A man is remembered by his mountains, not his bones. The lost bone is connected to the memory forest. Are you the rock or are you Sisyphus? The shrimp bone is connected to the bell bone. Make a run-for every border that ensnares you.

Table Of Contents

Treatise of the Lyric on the State of Things, Justin Cruzana (poetry)

Highway 1, Past Hope, Maria Haskins (fictions)

Soul Shepherds, Joshua Lim (fiction)

Whalesong, Guan Un (fiction)

After the Storm, Ishita Basu Mallik (poetry)

John, Penelope K. Parker (nonfiction)

The Twelve Deaths of You, C. J. Subko (fiction)

Flesh Ghosts, Andrew Kozma (poetry)

Penny For Them, Die Booth (fiction)

The Wanderer, C. T. Muchemwa (fiction)

Fractionated Doses Don't Quench the Thirst of Those Who Knew the Whole, Le Werner (fiction)

Interrogation of Saint Winifred, Caroline Shea (poetry)