Matthew Martinez’s Alice shares her hilarious experience of a date gone wrong, and the wonders that were unearthed because of it.

Ariel Favis spins the tale of a mourning sibling in a land where it has snowed for four years.

Ingrid Jones unravels a tale about a girl who shares a meal with two wolf-human creatures.

Amanda Rios enchants with the story of an emotionally-loaded duel, wrought with history between the pair.

Mya Tozzi writes about unstable female friendships whilst “in the closet,” and traditions pertaining to spirituality.

Brooke Miller describes a visit to her great-grandmother’s hometown in Maui and the symbolism of the white goat.

Gaia Saravan describes a cultural ceremony and personal qualms with the ethics versus cultural value of it in this personal short story.

Lucy Nicodemus crafts a dreamy landscape in this fiction piece that plays with the concept of objects as sentient entities.

Gaia Saravan draws us into a short story about friendship, finding peace in a world that’s ending, and a psychedelic upside-down.

Anna Avent describes the dichotomy of experiences one can have in the New York subway system, both dystopian and utopian.

Brooke Miller’s poem expresses a sense of yearning for the utopic conditions of childhood.

K.B. Bonslater reflects on how reading bell hooks has altered their perception of love.