Bean
A fiction piece by Brendan Schallert.
Prime Piece
A fiction story by Caitlin Lent.
Desert Dog
A fiction piece by Johanna Rose Stone.
Gold Earring Girl
Fiction piece by Afton Reid.
Heatwave in Osaka, 2018
A creative nonfiction piece by Tarek Ziad.
The Match
A fiction piece by Sammy Loren.
Dog Bite
A creative nonfiction piece by Elizabeth Burch-Hudson.
“our monuments to Southern California,” she calls them.
A review by olga mikolaivna.
Hell House
A fiction piece by Britt Astrid Alphson.
Editor’s Letter
Most of the time spent working on this issue has taken place in my Koreatown apartment. With thin walls and insufficient insulation, I’ve thought a lot about warmth, or more accurately, heat.