Issue 0 - Reckoning
Logan Berry - Liberty Rose
"I complete the cut."
Molly Brodak - The Dr. Phil Trip
"Up—the light riggings, the sound panels, the iron walkways, the black background, the whole earth from underneath, some mass of wriggling demons packed into a dark half clod of matter—don’t look up! I tell myself."
Claire Donato - Christopher and the Red Snapper Ceviche
"Christopher prepared red snapper ceviche using red snapper sold neither at Union Market nor Ideal Food Basket, but rather from the fishmonger down the street from his one-bedroom apartment—mid-century, rent stabilized, entry foyer, living room, and eat-in kitchen located on a block adjacent to a major commercial strip in Brooklyn, NY."
Charlene Elsby - The First Time that I Killed Someone Because of What I’d Done to Them
"Mandy used to come around in the late afternoons."
Naomi Falk - The Wreath
"Seven silver ribbons in the sky over the field, while I’m trailing my fingers across the crushed cornstalks."
Sean Kilpatrick - Vortex Lingua
"Some kid down the street lifted my weapon."
Max Lawton - Tess 2
"The glass walls of the sunroom at the back of the house were slightly grimed over, but only on the outside, and Alessia was allergic to the notion of spraying Windex into the ecosystem of her environs."
Never Angeline North - Woe
"I was in the place you go when you are dead."
James Nulick - Mama Bright Clothes
"When you are destined for greatness, whether male or female, people will follow you into the sun, even as you illuminate the path of their destruction."
Timothy Willis Sanders - Great Expectations
"In 1998, I took Jessica Hamlin to see the Alfonso Cuarón film Great Expectations."