We invited writers to explore Issue Two: Reflection. We want works that peer into the depths of experience and emerge with something raw, honest, and uniquely theirs.

Issue Two authors unraveled the weight of introspection, showing us that reflection is not always gentle. It can be a sharp incision, exposing what we would rather keep hidden, as in a piece where an open chest becomes both metaphor and reality. Others traced the weight of inherited sorrow, where fire is both wound and inheritance, searing the past into the present.

And yet, reflection is also a quiet act of creation. It demands that we listen, speak, and reach beyond the silence to heal what has been broken.

For silence kills where love could start. — Claire Jeon