Welcome to issue 10! Included in this issue, we have short stories by Zoe Brook, Xuan Nguyen, Tianna Ebnet, C.J. Dotson, Alice Scott, Elisabeth Moore, and Alix Owen, with poetry by M.P. Armstrong, Selina Whiteley, Charles K. Carter, Lindz McLeod, and Amara George Parker.

Within the pages of this issue, we take Pride Month as a way to celebrate our community– a community that has been marginalized and oppressed for generations. However, we think that doing so without recognizing everything going on in the country would be reprehensibly irresponsible and that we need to pay our respects to the Black community, without which our own would not be able to celebrate as we do so openly today. Without them, we would never have been able to make the progress that we have in society towards LGBTQ rights, acceptance, and equality.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 60s acted as a springboard for so many other marginalized communities, and ours was no different. Add to this a history of queer, Black activists, like Marsha P. Johnson, Audre Lorde, Alvin Ailey, and James Baldwin, who helped highlight our underrepresented community, and it is clear how much we owe to them. This is why 50% of all sales of this issue will be donated to Black charities, bail funds, and social justice organizations around the country in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Black community is struggling, and everyone within our community, whether you are Black, a non-black POC, or white, should stand with them. If you are white or a non-black POC, we implore you to donate to one of the following organizations or any others that you can. If you can’t, sign petitions and spread the information of where to donate so that others who are able to can. We as a community owe this and more to a community that has fought for us time and time again.

From your Editor-in-Chief,

Chandra Montez

Act Blue Split Donation Fund

Act Blue Black Lives Matter

Communities Against Police Brutality

Black Visions Collective

NAACP

Further, if you can, please support our magazine by purchasing this issue in eBook format on Amazon or in print on in our shop. We can’t keep this magazine going without your generous support.

 Poetry

Fiction

he died of a broken heart

By: alix owen - 1.5k words

DEDICATIONS

This month’s issue is dedicated to all who made it possible.

Sleepy Adventurers

Keana Labra

other adventurers

Finley Rauch

Kaitlin Rasmussen

Ren Hutchings

Jennifer Gilbert

Rachel Griel

Alexander Gauss

Sommer Sable

Kimberly Lowe

Timothy Tarkelly

Delroy Jordan

Rhoda Miller

Nadia Gerassimenko

Farah Hasan

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