ISSUE 53

MASTHEAD

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

EVERYTHING CHILD
Sophie Braxton

EVACUATION ROUTES
Nina de Gramont

THE BLACK WIDOW TEACHES HER DAUGHTER A FEW TRICKS
Viet Dinh

FRENCH FILM
Anthony Tognazzini

BITTE
Kathleen Heil
Prize Winner, Fiction Contest

OUTSIDE PEOPLE
Beatrice Baltuck Garrard
First Runner-Up, Fiction Contest

VIABILITY
Jim Flanagan
Second Runner-Up, Fiction Contest

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION BETWEEN MY TRAUMATIC BIRTH AND THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
Asher Dark

IT'S A SMALL WORLD OF HORRORS (AFTER ALL)
An excerpt from The Passenger
Chaney Kwak

EXIT ROUTE
Michelle Gurule
Prize Winner, Nonfiction Contest

SUPER SMASH
Cassie Mannes Murray
First Runner-Up, Nonfiction Contest

ON SELF-CARE: ABSURD AND INCREMENTAL
Rachel Toliver
Second Runner-Up, Nonfiction Contest

HOW TO BE A DICK IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chris Stuck

THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF YOGA
Noel Alumit

CUFFLINKS
James Magruder

AIN'T NO THING
Miah Jeffra

THE WOMAN AT THE PARTY
Rachel Howard

ALONDRA AND KRISSIE: A PHOTO ALBUM
Kathy Anderson

LITTLE TREES
J. E. Sills

SOME SURVIVE AND OTHERS DO NOT
Amelia Martens

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