I’m Just Like You (And it Sucks) — Edy Modica (Encountered 2026)

The Village Schoolmaster — Franz Kafka — The Complete Stories (encountered 2026)

Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method — Waffle House Training (Encountered 2026)

On thoughts without words — nelson goodman — cognition (Encountered 2026)

The Beaneater (Mangiafagioli) — Annibale Carracci (Encountered 2026)

Three stories — Ashleigh Bryant Phillips — Blackbird (Encountered 2026)

The Plagiarist — Luc le — Blackbird (Encountered 2026)

Away with the fairies — Tom rosenthal (encountered 2026)

Whalefall — Kimberly Potthast — Wigleaf (encountered in 2025)

Breath — Bruce Johnson — Wigleaf (encountered in 2025)

Return to the Coondog Castle — Ashleigh Bryant Phillips — Parhelion Literary Magazine (encountered in 2025)

Clementine, Carmelita, Dog — David Means — Granta (encountered in 2025)

Arcadia — Emma Cline — Granta (encountered in 2025)

An Impossibly Small Ball of Matter —Matthew Dix — The End / reprinted in Soft Union (encountered in 2025)

Blowing Bubbles, Soft and Fine — Nathan Dragon — Soft Union (encountered in 2025)

The Depressed Cockroach — Rebecca Grace Cyr — Soft Union (encountered in 2025)

My Stalagmite — Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary (encountered in 2025)