Issue Five is filled with dreamy apocalypses, unreliable narrators, galaxy brains, and shapeshifting. The stories and poetry in this issue all have a thread of softness running through them. These pieces are rooted in devotion; to a person, to a god, to a fight. Within these works, people are transforming themselves, becoming something or someone new because of their relationships. There may be anger or rage, but you can’t evoke volatile emotions without a yearning for something underneath...

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't bel...

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't bel...

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't bel...

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't bel...