200 pages.

Issue No. 105 closes our 30^th anniversary year with a special cover designed by Paul Madonna, as well as new fiction from Dagoberto Gilb, and more, including:

Austin Smith’s “The Cave”: Pining for mom making dinner back at the farmhouse, a boy ventures into an odd schoolmate’s home.

Heather Monley’s “Paddle to Canada” (a 2017 O.Henry Prize winner): What really happened that day on the lake when the lightning storm broke out?

Dominica Phettaplace’s “The Story of a True Artist” (a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner): The fraught path to maintaining Internet fame is not making high school any easier.

Davide Orrechio’s “Diego Wilchen No More”: “In the cub, you could already see the invincible Wilchen. He will earn love, only to dash it, and a following, only to disappoint.”

Lauren Alwan’s “Eldorado”: An essay on building a house for two in the woods—a house you never plan to live in.

And fiction from Olivia Clare, Kristopher Jansma, Paul Madonna; plus First Time in Print stories from Andrew Foley and Henri Lipton; and poetry from Heather Altfeld, Dan Alter, Jill Osier, Floyd Skloot, Ed Skoog, and Molly Vogel.