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• 15 • Guest Editor's Note (The Grey Issue) • essay by Alissa Nutting
• 17 • Paracosmics • poem by Seth Abramson
• 19 • The Better Kids • poem by Seth Abramson
• 20 • Naughty Boys Well and Truly Punished • poem by Seth Abramson
• 21 • The Fingerling (an excerpt) • short fiction by Matt Bell
• 29 • Brave the Path • poem by Molly Bendall
• 30 • Animal Splendor • poem by Molly Bendall
• 31 • Litte Man • short story by Wyatt Bonikowski
• 33 • Girl-King (iv) • poem by Brittany Cavallaro
• 35 • Sanctuary • short story by Maile Chapman
• 43 • Tears • short story by Mimi Chubb
• 48 • (Because Children Are Still Brave) • short story by Tara Goedjen
• 56 • The Mask • short story by Sara Gong
• 57 • How to Be and Look Like a Mean Girl While in Girl Scouts or How to Make a Bullet Belt • short story by Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska
• 59 • Girl You Won't Remember • short story by Aireanne Hjelle
• 60 •  Three Images • interior artwork by Desiree Holman
• 63 • Elegy for a Child Trapped Underground • poem by Ashley Elizabeth Hudson
• 65 • Remy and the Crystals • short story by Shane Jones
• 69 •  Three Sculptures • interior artwork by Jessica Joslin
• 72 • Your Blood Like an Animal • poem by Krystal Languell
• 73 • The Castaways (excerpt) • short fiction by Stacey Levine
• 73 •  The Castaways • interior artwork by David Lasky
• 81 • Krivoye Lake • short story by Oksana Marafioti
• 88 • History of a Saint • short story by Adam McOmber
• 100 • Tomtens • short story by Christopher Merkner
• 106 • The Upper Harz • poem by Benjamin Nadler
• 108 •  Three Pieces • interior artwork by Andi Olsen and Lance Olsen and Davis Schneiderman
• 111 • Fox King • short story by David James Poissant
• 121 • Vertigo • short story by Gretchen Steele Pratt
• 123 • Petty • short story by Imad Rahman
• 134 • A Korean Fairy Tale • short story by Matthew Salesses
• 139 • Telephone Girl • short story by Kevin Sampsell
• 143 • [The second house] • short story by J. A. Tyler
• 146 • Escape from the Dark Forest • short story by Lee Upton
• 154 • Cannibals • short story by Laura van den Berg
• 160 • The Dog • short story by Rob Walsh
• 168 • Elegy for Zahra Baker • poem by Jillian Weise
• 172 • Ever After • short story by Kellie Wells
• 184 • Three Poems • poem by Elizabeth Clark Wessel
• 187 • Two Poems • poem by Deborah Woodard
• 189 • Whistleblower • graphic format • short fiction by John Dermot Woods