Spring! When a young person’s fancy turns to thoughts of love and the rest of us…well, we mainly sit around wondering what the hell the cream filling in Cadbury Eggs is really made out of.

And because introspection shouldn’t just be for Easter candy, our new issue has a definite metacognitive vibe as we turn our thematic focus on, well, us. We’ve gathered together five stories about literature, writers, writing, and words, plus, one short tale about art. It’s a veritable feast of creative self-examination.

Also, there’s a seventh story about a woman with a gun in her mouth. (That one’s probably a metaphor for something, but sometimes it’s best not to overanalyze these things.)

Pass the Peeps. Issue 29 has hatched.

Read it online here. Download the PDF here.