A neighbor’s voice, so close and urgent in the dark, startled him. “Look!” she said. Just in time he caught the streak of a meteor, and in its disappearance another bright trace against the stars.

“Look!” he said.

And that had to be enough.

M. Henninger-Voss is an award-winning historian, a personalist, and writer of essays, fiction, and poetry.

Bud Pharo is a permanently disabled American who writes short stories and flash fiction. His work has been featured in a number of literary magazines, both in print and online.

Louie Rivers is an emerging poet from Mississippi whose work explores labor, isolation, and emotional endurance through compressed imagery and lyric intensity.

Cozette Annemarie Calderon is an undergraduate student at The New School where she studies Literary Studies. She was previously the Editor-in-Chief for The Benicia Paw. Now, she is a copy editor for the New School Free Press. She is based in New York City and Vallejo, California where she works as an American Sign Language interpreter.

The washroom beyond? Just five.

So what’s behind the rest?

I’ve mapped this whole place – voids everywhere. And they all link up.

Is every building like this? Whole cities, parallel worlds, meshed with ours?

“Harmless obsession,” my caseworker reckons.

Tomorrow I’m breaking through.

William Mitchell lives in East Sussex in the South of England. He is an award-winning author, having had early success with various Horror and Science Fiction publications before winning the Writers of the Future contest in 2012. His first novel, CREATIONS, came out in 2014 with John Hunt Publishing.

Pencil-bending bureaucrats. Palmed-dollar private detectives. A DNA card-shuffle. With a wave of the wand, the magicians remained forever invisible.

Writings by Lisa K. Buchanan (www.lisakbuchanan.com) appear in CRAFT, The Citron Review, and elsewhere. Foes: fellow bus passengers with shoulder bags near her nose. Friends: anyone not preceding her in the bakery line for a lemon bar. Heroes: public librarians. Current favorite banned book: Bus 57 (Dashka Slater).

Her phone vibrates a text.
“Flight LX327 to Zurich now boarding.”

We kiss. Sigh. Hold hands,
let go. Kiss once more.

She picks up her bag, turns to sign
“Good-bye. I love you.”

Her hands leave fingerprints in the air.

Sherry writes poetry as an excuse to hang out with the poets of County Waterford, Ireland.

It’s the sound of saltine crackers being crumbled into that first fall minestrone simmering on the wood stove.

Jimmy is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Having worked in the horticultural side of life for over 30 years, he is now working on a book about his backpacking adventures around South Asia in the early 1990’s.

One envelope stood out among the bills in the mailbox.

“Pre-approved.”

Christa Lyon-Moon spends her free time crafting flash fiction that finds meaning in small moments where imagination meets real life.

Take me, this day. Be it thorn or splinter, poison leaf or needle, or by way that does not make a sound.

May we dance with broken limbs, bleed with rotting hearts, and burn with contagious crowns of fire.

Let’s be the wind upon our last falling bough.