Issue #14 • May 2026

Note from the Editor: Our May edition gathers five written pieces and a work of visual art that explore the boxes the world builds for us, and what happens when we step outside of them. Our contributors write from the liminal spaces between confinement and release. 

In Lauren Johnson’s Unboxing, a mother shepherds screen-tethered children into the South African bush, trading iPads for harnesses and helmets. Vanishing by Barbara Matteau,  traces a teenage girl’s slow emergence from invisibility to self-recognition, by way of a cousin’s belated, yet fleeting, attention. Amanda Wild offers Audacious Ambition, a poem letting out the seams of palatability to make room for “who I became / when I split in two.” In Containment, S.E. Rayner writes from the therapist’s chair, on the hidden humanity of those who bear witness to emotion and confession. And in The Farmer’s Market, Suzi Park Larabee captures a community arrested from its weekend rhythm as a baby toddles their first wobbly steps. Accompanying these works is a visual art piece for you to discover, Robert Rogers’ Liminal Phase.