Paul Hostovsky Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 When Gilbert asked me to be his best manI started writing this little toast in my headabout the National Braille Press where we allworked, me in Transcription, Gilbert and Lisain Proofreading, where they fell in love amongthe braille dots, reading volumes in the goosebumps,reading love in each other’s…

Sher Ting Chim Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria, a member of Kenyon Review’s Winter Workshop 2023 and a Tin House’24 Winter Workshop participant. She has work published in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, OSU The…

Euginia Tan Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 on saturday morningsthe boy and his fatherwould go for breakfast his father would ordera bowl of kacang pool“too jelak, come, son” they would sharea boisterous meal ofclustered foul medammas banded cooked beanssimmered with ground beefheld hand in hand with spices, green chillis, gheecrowned with a fried egg,sunny side…

Felicia Zhuang Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 contrary to popular belief, a house can indeed survive on nothing but takeaway. chicken rice and fish burgers and beef bowls and spaghetti. cleanup is easy, for the plastic piles well by the kitchen door and can be thrown down the chute without much further thought. our metal…