Issue One
Fiction
Miles Klee
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Karen Gentry
On “The Forgiveness Project”
Shana Aue
The Readiness
Kij Johnson
“I Wrote His Number on the Back of My Hand but It Washed Off”
Tony Daniel
Learning to Paint Snow
I found The Forgiveness Project, the 1971 short story collection by Canadian author Lydia Lorenz, in a box of my father’s things that the owner of the hotel next to the Maternity Hospital in Luanda kept safe throughout the Ultramar and subsequent civil wars that rocked Angola for more than forty years.