The stories and poems in Issue 11 focus on acceptance: whether it's the changes in your family, the loss of your past, or that the future is more unexpected than you planned for it to be. Acceptance isn't a defeat, it doesn't have to be quiet or soft. Sometimes acceptance is clawed.

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Editorial

Editorial by Rebecca Bennett

Short Fiction

The Ache Before the Wound by Hap Aziz

Secrets of the Sea by Ares J. Benoit

The Kingdom She Carried by Jillian Schedneck

The Lazarus Heart by Esther Lim

Fishbowlhead by Moh Afdhaal

A Knight of Leisure by J. A. Espersmyth

The Tree by T.R. Steele

On the Occasion of Your Daughter Becoming a Kallikantzaros by Avra Margariti

Poetry

Greenhouse by Julia Sinclair

Six Minutes Till School by Chris Clemens

recollection: to taste by Wren Douglas

Twin mission by Diem Okoye 

Like Clockwork by R. F. Hovis

Nonfiction

Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal

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