Spring 2026

Volume 5, Issue 2

Editor’s Note (pp. 3-4)
Zhenya Shapiro

To Stardust (pp. 7-8)
Prima Changwatchai

A Story for Vera (p. 9-18)
Ave Dimond

The Culture Industry and You: Maybe Not Getting It Is The Point (pp. 19-31)
Jordan Schein

Porcelain (p. 32)
Archini Koushik

On The Nature of Things: An Exegesis on Death (pp. 33-38)
Samara Rastogi

A Life For a Life (p. 39-42)
Mason Watterson

Thrifted Trophy Ware (pp. 43-44)
Jessica Ahrens

Bone Socket (pp. 45-54)
Jessica Ahrens

Orbits (pp. 55)
Archini Koushik

Statements No. 5 and No. 7 (pp. 56-64)
J. Andrew Carroll

Salt Burn (pp. 65-70)
Jessica Ahrens

The Sociality of Agency (pp. 71-80)
Madi Snyder-Huffaker

Editor-in-Chief: Zhenya Shapiro

Finished under Ayla Miller

Editors: Ayla Miller, Cleo Kim, Shelby Mallard, Joey Lieng

Designer: Sunny Tian