Editor’s Note

We find ourselves in summer—the season between spring and autumn—when everything is green and growing or perhaps parched and dry, when we endure cloying heat and marvel in lake-side respite. As this issue came together, our editorial team talked of the tension between such things, about the gaps between people and the connective tissue that holds us together. 

Here we have compiled a set of stories and poems that lay bare lives lived in the spaces between, whether that be between what we have and what we want, where we are and where we wish to be, or what we say and what we do. We see the distance between desire and action, between coming together and staying apart. 

This issue’s contributors have filled the gaps with longing, with grief, and occasionally with hope. Join us in the Vast Chasm and revel in the heart spaces they have created. 

Table of Contents

Title	Genre	Writer
Both/And	Poetry	James Roach
please don’t let me vanish	Poetry	Josafina Garcia
The Vendor at the Farmers Market Honey Stall Gingerly Peels Away a Sticky Note Stuck to the Underside of the Cash Box	Poetry	Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
First Off, First On	Flash Fiction	Lukas Tallent
What We Say For Love	Flash Fiction	Joshua James Lofflin
Circling	Flash Fiction	Rory Perkins
She’s a Beauty	Flash Fiction	Owen Schalk
The road at the end of your street takes you there	Poetry	Brian Baker
Mad Lib	Interactive	Vast Editors