In this issue, we greet my favorite season, fall, which holds within it many moments to celebrate and reflect. It’s a season of transition, as the leaves change color and the wind moves us from summer toward winter—as reflected in our first two pieces, a very short fiction piece called “The Wind” and a play entitled The Storm. It’s also back-to-school time, and we have two funny poems about that.
Oct. 14 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and we include two paintings by Leticia Cheng in celebration
And, of course, October means Halloween, and the weeks leading up to it are sometimes called “spooky season.” If you like scary stories, this is your time! We end this issue with a truly chilling story by Anushka Trivedi called “Tired Wounds.” In this piece, the author turns an ordinary object—you’ll have to read it to find out what!—into something terrifying. I challenge you to write a story featuring an ordinary object or situation that somehow becomes scary.
Boo!
