Trees live their lives on a different scale, and we poetically imbue them with traits we examine in ourselves. This does not, by any means, imply that they lack these traits. When our story trees talk or move, express feelings, wrestle with immortality, nurture others, or hold the secrets of life, they may not literally do it in the same ways they do in what we perceive as ‘regular life’—the stories just help us to see ourselves a little better, and imagine the ways that they can. And make no mistake, they can.

- from the editorial

This issue features:

• The Warrior Tree by Chana Kohl


• Shadow and Ash by Sarah McPherson


• Lost and Found; Retreat and Return by Emma Schmid


• The Beginning by Katrina Carruth


• This Sweet and Bitter Fruit; or, Ladon's Lament by Maeghan Klinker


• Hunger by Meg Malone


• Break Fresh Ground by Callie S. Blackstone


• Linden's Legends by Suzie Grace


• The Mother Tree by Elana Gomel


• Live Oak by Carly Racklin


• Of Wood and Flame by Anna Madden


• The Wee Folk by Keira Reynolds


• The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees by Wendy Nikel


• Beech, Please by Maria Paige Brekke


• The Trimming of the Branches by Ali Miller


• End of the World, Beginning of Everything by Kiersten Gonzalez


• Quercus by Emma Louise Gill


• The Oak Tree by Liz Baxmeyer