Take a journey with our 68 writers-from rural Mexico in the '60s to Tehran in the '70s, to the suburbs of Vancouver in the '80s, and to other planets in the distant future. Within these pages you will encounter a feathered heart, door-to-door salesbees, and a breathing house. In emerge 18 new and published authors present their fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry and lyric prose, speculative fiction, and young adult stories.emerge 18 includes contributions from TWS students mentored by Kevin Chong (Fiction), Eileen Cook (YA/Speculative Fiction), Claudia Cornwall (Creative Non-Fiction), Hiromi Goto (Speculative Fiction), Stella Harvey (Fiction and Personal Memoir), JJ Lee (Creative Non-Fiction), Jordan Abel (Poetry), Jen Sookfong Lee (Fiction), Betsy Warland (Poetry) and program director Wayde Compton. CONTENTS Carleigh Baker - Foreword: NON-FICTIO; Julie Gordon - Learning to Listen; Ann Wilson - Becoming; Vicki McLeod - Long Night, with Flowers; Paula Wellings - Two Fish in a Tank; Joanna Baxter - Wrecked; Carolyne Montgomery - Tsusiat Falls; Maura Wong - OMG!; Emi Sasagawa - Selfish Love; Nicole Jess - Pedestal; Evie Gold - A Determining Train Ride; Marian Dodds - The Man in the Cinnamon Suit; Stewart Dickson - The Story That Never Ends; Sriram Iyer - The Busyness of Unemployment; Averill Groeneveld-Meijer - Circus; Tamara Jong - The Will; Nadia Ashley - "Say Goodbye to Daddy"; Maureen Duteau - Old Hands; Georgia Swayze - Daddy Issues; Joseph Onodi - The Bicycle; FICTION; Lynn J. Salmon - Loss of the Sea Dragon; Dayna Mahannah - This Girl Jane; Gillian Tregidgo - Seagull; Debbie Bateman - Your Body Was Made for This; Jonathan M. Bessette - Freud to Frisco; Felix Wong - Chinese Funerals Are Weird; Shane Leydon - Three Flags; Kate Flannery - The Rat; Matt Brandenburg - Bone Chandelier; Avalon Bourne - The Other Woman; Isabel Spiegel - Refuge; DeeDee LeGrand-Hart - White Lion; Dianne Carruthers - Schadenfreude; Griffin Tedeschini - Sticktown; Ann Svendsen - The Man Who Came Through the Window; Karla Kosowan - The Lady in the Cake; Spencer Lucas Oakes - Team Building; Kathleen Kerwin - San Domenico; Erica Hiroko - Two pieces; POETRY; Tamar Rubin - Tablet Fragments; Sareh Donaher - Five poems; Deborah Harford - Five poems; Rowen EB - Three poems; April Lewis - Knotting Memory; Alex Duncan - A Relationship in Three Parts; Brad Akeroyd - Two poems; Sabyasachi Nag - Three poems; Katie McGarry - Three poems; Sarah Mostaghel - Five poems; Megan Frazer - Mended; Lorne Daniel - Three poems; Razielle Aigen - Mountains; Erin Brown-John - Matthew; SPECULATIVE and YOUNG ADULT FICTION; Brook Warner Jensen - Baking with Betsy; Benjamin Thiede - Stay Out of the Tall Grass; D. R. Spicer - Application Reboot; Wendy Naava Smolash - The Institute; Spencer Miller - Forever in Warfare My Heart Is; Yuki Abovearth - Chariot; Lula García - Patos; Kimber Anderson - Mystery of the Jack of Diamonds; Zahida Rahemtulla - Julio's House; Miraya Engelage - The Crescent; Elise Thiessen - Green Eyes; Samara Malkin - Porcelain; K. J. Kwon - The Bully; Koreen Heaver - Grounded; Lorraine Erickson - The Night; Rory Andrew Stevens - Fission