Editor’s Note

This issue began with fire. We started accepting pieces and somehow, fire was mentioned in all of them. Maybe this is our theme, we mused. The world is on fire, and it’s seeping into our collective art. But other pieces came into the queue that we also loved and although they didn’t mention fire, they contained fires of their own. The burning desires to love and to be loved, to find who you are, to remake yourself into someone better. Our second issue gathered itself—a collection of desires around relationships: with lovers, with families, with ourselves.

This issue reminds me of something beautiful I recently read about wildland fires: A wildland fire looks at first like devastation, but soon, the soil—rejuvenated by ash—becomes a theater for new life. I can’t think of a better way to enter this season of spring, of new life, than by reminiscing over versions of us who came before, full of hope for the versions of us who will come next. 

Table of Contents

Title	Genre	Writer
Spam Love Poem	Poetry	C.M. Crockford
Better Things in Pittsburg	Flash CNF	Cole Hediger
Floyd’s Left Leg	Fiction	Travis Cravey
fire on water	Poetry	Joshua Effiong
Take Me Somewhere Nice	Flash Fiction	Noreia Rain
Dead Shopping Mall	Flash Fiction	Nick Olson
Chicken Legs	Flash CNF	Heidi Nieling
We Splash	Flash Fiction	Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
Bankrupt	CNF	Cat Dixon
I will be a person who composts	Poetry	Kate Hargreaves
Relationship Quiz	Interactive	Vast Chasm Editors