Post Roller Derby Stress Disorder, a short essay by Vita Tate

Volcano, a short fiction by Erin Williamson

Maintenance, a flash fiction by Sarp Sozdinler

Valet, a creative nonfiction by Ralph James Savarese

The Way We Were, a short fiction by Erin Finnerty

The Spontaneous Dehusbanding of Maeve Smith, a short fiction by Wendy Elizabeth Wallace

The Wheel of the Year, a short fiction by Justine Gardner

The Drop, a short fiction by David Brinson

Bye, Benny, a short fiction by Róisín Burke

Dying In A More Beautiful Way, a short fiction by Cheyenne Mann

The No-Cry Zone, a creative nonfiction by Ellen Notbohm

Belly of the Beast, a short fiction by Daniel Rousseau

Clothesline, a flash fiction by Jo Axolotl

Caving In, a short fiction by Evan Parker

Great Glue Whale, a short fiction by Kellan Jensen

Mother Mouth, a short nonfiction by Lisa Laughlin

False Teeth, a short fiction by Jan Carson

Impractical Choices, a short fiction by Raheem Omeiza

Your Ad Here, a flash fiction by Newton Holt

We're Not Monsters, a flash fiction by Bethany Holmstrom

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Things You Lose, a short fiction by Kelli Dianne Rule

Prime Mover, a creative nonfiction by J Eric Miller

Absolutes, a short fiction by Dina Dwyer

Possession, a short fiction by Brett Willis

My Name in the Blue Hallway, a flash nonfiction by Holly Hunt

Gloved, nonfiction by Helena Guerin

Wednesday Night Wiener Fights, a short fiction by Adam Straus

Consider Richard M. Nixon Drinking Navy Grog At Trader Vic’s, Capital Hilton, July-something, 1974, Washington, D.C., a short fiction

Manzanita, a short fiction by Vincent James Perrone

The Forge Literary Magazine Editors' Prize

Jesus Comes to Dinner, a short fiction by Chris Scott

Fairy Tales, a flash fiction by Amelia Borawski

For Dear Life, a flash nonfiction by J.L. Evans

Cross Stitch, a flash nonfiction by Valerie L. Egar

Conduction Issues, a flash fiction by S. Chaudhuri-Perelló

All of Us by Douglas W. Milliken, a finalist for the 2025 Forge Flash Fiction Competition

Ghosted, a short story by Jaime Gill

Her secret. Some days I can smell it—musty, swollen, ripening. Like my childhood dog’s infected surgery incision, but sweeter. It shines under the fluorescents. We’ll be sitting around the boardroom…

a flash fiction by Ali McLafferty

Harlequins Upon Our Doorsteps, a short fiction by Mizuki Yamamoto