Issue One Featured Editorial June 2024 Last Train by Sue Lockwood Two Poems by Andy Jackson Naked by Nicholas Hogg An extract from ‘The Conversation’ by Jo Burns & Emily Cooper Missing You: Meadow, Beach and Highway by Claudio Pozzani, translated by Suzanne Branciforte Halloween by Dimitra Harvey The Daughter You Almost Had by Ricky Ray Two Poems by Stuart Barnes Almost snapped my neck by Molly Twomey A Collection of Baby Teeth by Helena Pantsis The Boy Who Turned Into Butter by Munira Tabassum Ahmed Shebeen by Jim McElroy The Beach in the Nineties by Scott-Patrick Mitchell I saw lines running down my face By Charmaine Papertalk Green First Salvos, Savannah by Maya C. Popa The Burning of the Brumbies by Judith Nangala Crispin Laughter by Damen O’Brien The Varieties of Religious Experience by Holly Isemonger & Chris Fleming Darwin’s Wasps by Eleanor Hooker 58. The Veil Itself by Jakob Ziguras An extract from ‘Tongues: A Memoir of Dysfluency’ by Jason Allen-Paisant Ithaca at the Hospice by Vasiliki Albedo