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by Greg Santos
Welcome to our first issue of 2026, friends. Here in Montreal, winter still has a firm hold, though the groundhog has reportedly seen its shadow.
Comic by Charlie Chen
'Charlie' Pinhui Chen is a visual artist from China, currently based in Germany. Since 2021, she's been working in film as a set designer and illustrator.
Comic by Jake Kennedy
Jake Kennedy is the author of three full-length collections of poetry and also the author of several chapbooks.
Creative nonfiction by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
I was twelve when we came home from Beirut to Canada. My dad sat in the front of the taxi at the Montreal airport, while I squeezed into the backseat between Maman and my fourteen-year-old brother, Etienne.
Creative nonfiction by Grace Schwenk
A great lookout once told me that September is the best month at the tower. I’ve spent the last week trying to understand why.
Creative nonfiction by Emira Tufo
Year after year, you live the last few weeks leading up to the annual pilgrimage to your hometown as if they were your last. The dread and the hunger kick in at twenty-one days before departure; once your remaining time falls short of a month, death feels very near.
Creative nonfiction by Kirby Michael Wright
Jetty was our palomino quarter horse, the daughter of Ol’ Sissy and a mystery stallion who’d mounted her between lines of wire in the fence line.
Fiction by E.M. Foley
Ryan suggested therapy when I almost burned his cottage down. Not on purpose, although I didn’t do anything to stop it. I was trying to light the grill in the backyard when the flames suddenly shot up from the back.
Fiction by Elizabeth Jacyshyn-Owen
It begins, as such things often do, not with a declaration but with a sound file. A voice, timestamped, pressed like wildflowers into the coffin of an .m4a delivered at 3:12am local time, which is to say: inconvenient.
Cover art by Angie Quick
The oil painting “The actress (study)” is a work that explores the performance of sexuality. The painting borrows from imagery of the stage and asks the viewer what production are they witnessing.