In This Issue

• Join us as we raise a glass to the New Year and a new decade with Cheers by cover artist Melissa Mary Duncan.
• Ghosts rise from the depths of different pasts to haunt the pages of 'When Captain Picard Was My Dad' by feature author Finnian Burnett and 'The Haunted Ghost' by JJ Lee.
• Family both anchors and unmoors the varied casts of 'Moon Eater' by EC Dorgan, 'Field's Nocturne No. 10 in E Major' by Matt Lumbard, and 'The Golden Bull' by JM Landels.
• Time and space rattle and quake in 'Nobody Knows It but Me' by Franco Amati and 'Separate Worlds' by Chip Houser. And the shattering continues with new poetry from Aaron Poochigian, DS Maolalai, Purbasha Roy.
• But journeys finally find peace in the destination with 'Get Home Safe' by Sierra Louie and 'Stella Ryman and the Labyrinthian Puzzle' by Mel Anastasiou.

Finnian Burnett holds a doctoral degree in English pedagogy and teaches English online for a US college. Their writing explores intersections of identity - fatness, mental health, disability, queer joy. Finnian was a finalist for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Their second novella-in-flash, The Price of Cookies, is available from Off Topic Publishing. Finnian lives in BC where they spend their time watching a lot of Star Trek and daydreaming about teleportation.