Flight 6 Now Live!

This issue of Flight marks one year of sharing what we think is some of the best damn writing and art out there. Flight 1 landed in August of 2025, which means that by now we've passed that one year milestone that a lot of small writing venues never manage to hit.

We originally had bigger dreams for our birthday issue (a special theme? a contributor's reading? balloons?! a bouncy house?!!) but we discovered this summer that the downside of a journal run by siblings is that a death in the family hits the whole team. In July, our sainted grandmother passed away after an incredible 103 years. As anyone who has dealt with death knows, there is a great deal that goes into a passing, not just the mourning and travel, but the labor of packing up the deceased's belongings to be shipped, saved, or donated.

It's fitting, then, that all of our pieces for this issue relate in some way to the theme of work. First, we begin with our Brewer's Choice selection: Michael Grant Smith's "Disemployment Guidelines," which explores how far an employee can be pushed. Next, Justin Lacour brings the poetry with "Poem set during my forty-seventh year," a sprawling, sexy meditation on lunchbreaks and marriage and everything in between. Our creative nonfiction selection, "I Learned to Count at Seventeen," comes from Lisa Thornton. Her essay describes how living can be labor, whether at the beginning of life or at the end. Flight 6 ends with our fiction selection from Palak Aggarwal, "The Rooms After Forgetting." Aggarwal's speculative story takes us to work along with a custodian at an amnesiac motel.

It's fall, and the weather is starting to turn. This issue is all about work, but we're off today, so we're picking dark beers and pumpkin ciders to go along with the killer writing. Welcome to Flight 6. We're glad you're here.