This issue contains stories about family, stories about theft, stories about ghosts, stories about the weight of history, stories about weight we bring to history, stories about be- ing lost and being found, and stories about the gravity of grief.These are the stories that whisper to us in the sweaty shade under the old trees that have grown over the graves of generations that have been forgotten. This is the ripening season, the time before the harvest, before the nights get long . . .

Includes stories by A. P. Howell, Louis Evans, Christopher Hawkins, Jon Lasser, Josh Rountree, Nikoline Kaiser, Breanna Bright, and J. A. W. McCarthy.