CONTENTS

Introduction by Editor Mary Jean Chan

Kali Richmond, waiting for the rain to pass

Yanita Georgieva, Good Immigrant

Jo Bratten, Wish Bear

Wendy Allen, Patriarchy

Nicola Healey, Animals

Simon Maddrell, According to Martin

Laura McKee, eels

Yago Soto-André, The Future has its own Thumbnail

Natalie Linh Bolderston, Praying to Âu Cơ after My First Cervical Screening

Tom Bailey, Salobreña

Milena Williamson, In the Treatment Room

Isabelle Baafi, burst me into song

Sarah Terkaoui, The children have forgotten to be afraid

Antonia Taylor, Counting

Sanah Ahsan, there is no belief without unbelief

Sam Henley Smith, Cuttlefish

Serge ♆ Neptune, [sometimes i think i’m the wrong type of gay]

Suyin Du Bois, Ode to Kaya

Olive Franklin, exactly as much

Roshni Gallagher, Attend