Editor’s Note

It’s spooky season, baby! This issue is haunting in all the ways. In gathering these stories, we found voices that were haunted by missed connections and lost opportunities—whole other lives that faded into the ghosthood of might-have-been. What will grab your attention from the shadows? A lost loved one? A swarm of ladybugs? The moldering corpse of your marriage, reddening in the sun? The words you’ve been looking for in a language you don’t yet know? Maybe just a vision of the future, if you dare to look. Descend once more into the Chasm to find out. And good luck…

Table of Contents

Title	Genre	Writer
A Shared Language	Poetry	Abduljalal Musa Aliyu
A Field We Sprawl On	Fiction	Jennifer Evans
When the Ladybugs Came	Poetry	Caitlin O’Halloran
Sunburn	Flash Fiction	Ben Lockwood
The Water Bridge	Flash Creative Nonfiction	Erin Calabria
A Guide to Your First Year in America	Creative Nonfiction	Magdalena Bartkowska
Divination	Poetry	Ada Navarro Ulriksen
Word Search	Interactive	Vast Editors