Issue: NiftyLit #16

David Borofka

"Then again, maybe the small suitcase Shelly pulled from the backseat looks like the indication of a decision-in-the-making long overdue."

Shannan Mann

"Even my shadow I often found to have abandoned my body. / I sought the sun — by an eternal eclipse was I oppressed."

Karan Kapoor

"everyone around us echoes / into the wind / even rain has a voice"

Hannah Ford

"Healing was a combination of factors, among which were extended grace and awkward conversations and a desperate grasping to be seen as a person and not a frail, troubling burden."

Hancheng Wu

"A gust of wind blew towards him and swept his physical form away, his body dissolving into dust as those particles scattered in the air, knowing that the same fate awaited Jacob—except 2CH would not be there to save him."

AC Hart

"What miracle of nature makes something like an insect or a lizard sit perfectly still? In this frenetic society something such as a quiescent insect seems peculiar… almost magical."