“Crewelwork” from Bees of the Invisible by Maximiliane Donicht, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Copyright © 2018 by Maximiliane Donicht.
“The Girl Who Raised Pigeons” from Lost in the City: Stories by Edward P. Jones. Copyright © 1992, 2005, 2012 by Edward P. Jones. Reprinted by permission of Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Things you must beware of right now—” excerpted from Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 (A Midsummer Night’s Press / Sinister Wisdom, 2018). All rights reserved. Used with permission.
art credits
Front cover: Estate Sale of Ms. Vera Otis Lot 1, digital photograph of built miniature © Adrienne Elise Tarver; Back cover: digital photograph of estate sale installation from Eavesdropping © Adrienne Elise Tarver; “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” © Karendesuyo, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr; “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” © Florida Center for Instructional Technology, via ClipArt ETC; “Wind” © Pascal Volk, CC BY-SA via Flickr; “The Clown of Rome” © Weronika Marcińczyk via Unsplash; “A House in Karachi” © Frederica Morgan Davis; “The Fortune Years of Nathan Cook” © Jake Blucker via Unsplash; Art © Adrienne Elise Tarver (In the Eaves, oil on canvas; Eavesdropping 1, digital photograph of built miniature; Estate Sale of Ms. Vera Otis Lot 10, digital photograph of built miniature; Eavesdropping 7, digital photograph of built miniature; Estate Sale of Ms. Vera Otis Lot 6, digital photograph of built miniature; Eavesdropping 6, digital photograph of built miniature; Eavesdropping 5, digital photograph of built miniature); “Make No Sound to Wake” © Sebastien Gabriel via Unsplash; “Witness Tree” © Katy-Whitten Davidson.