Caw
Erin Ratigan

 
 

They came to the garden
looking for the peanuts
I have tucked away
in a place where the squirrels
won’t see them,

 
 

Sycamores

Thomas Strunk

 
 

The other day when I felt the weight
of the roof hanging low over me,
the ceiling sinking onto my shoulders,
I cut out of there and rushed
into the sunlight, into the forest
where walnuts and sycamores arched

 

Bite the Bullet

Olivia Trzaski

 
 

Your Imminent Demise
Last Chance <lastchance@yahoo.com> 6:34 PM (11 minutes ago)
To Alex

Hello Alex Reed Pearson !

We hope this email finds you well. As you may have noticed, you are about to die. Congratulations! Having reviewed the circumstances of your impending death, we would love to extend the offer of a second chance at life. This offer is only given to the very best! You should be proud.

 

Either Aether

Jake Zawlacki

Illustrations by Nicholas Garza

 

General Evil has returned to Ink 87 times.

He was familiar, by now, of his inevitable immersion in Ink, the place of all things unwritten. There he’d wait years for his return to the page, to leap out of that infinite blackness of possibility
and into some new reality fighting some new hero for some new evil plan.