The Lake Road Killers
Words By Melanie Finn, Art By Arthur Asa
The Pen Cries Power
Words By Daniel Carter, Charles Patrick Norman, Edward Ji, Evan MK Ecklund, Ward Allen Yont, Art By Tyler Champion
Breaking Ground
Art By Ejiwa Ebenebe
Three Poems
Words By torrin a. greathouse, Art By Lilly Higgs
Three Poems
Words By Joe Dunthorne, Art By Arthur Asa
Beri Pfister’s Real-Life Drama!
Words By Jenna-Marie Warnecke, Art By Daniel Reneau
Graduating
Words By Michael Harris Cohen, Art By Enrica Angiolini
The Pillars of Creation
Words By Walter Thompson, Art By Alyssa Menold
Editor’s Note
After F(r)iction#10 came out, we received a piece of troubling mail. Written on a floral greeting card in beautiful handwriting, a reader had written in to explain that she had found our publication last year at her local Barnes & Noble. She was instantly hooked, she said, and found a kinship in our weirdness. But she wanted to express her dismay about one of the stories we published.