five on the fifth

vol. 10 issue 1 | November 2024

In This Issue

Editor’s Note: It is our great pleasure to bring you Five on the Fifth’s tenth anniversary issue. We are so honored and grateful that we have been able to showcase such exceptional writing and talent for the past ten years. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for continuing to read, support, and help our little magazine and writing community thrive. For our part, we will continue to curate the best writing for you to enjoy, to give new writers a platform to share their work and voice, to keep setting the standard for quick submission responses, and to contribute to our writing community as much as we can. Thank you for having us. Please enjoy our special tenth-anniversary issue below.

Your editors,

Mahdis Marzooghian, Editor-in-Chief & Rhea Dhanbhoora, Managing Editor

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Twilight Watcher (Cover Art): David Mampel

Youth and Young Manhood (General Fiction): Conor Christofferson

Blue Glass (Flash Fiction): Lisa Alexander Baron

Judgment (Flash Fiction): Christine Breede

A Drowning (Flash Fiction): Sarp Sozdinler

The Day that Wasn't There (Flash Fiction): Anthony St. George

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Twilight Watcher (Cover Art): David Mampel has been painting professionally since 2016. His art has been shown in galleries and art shows from California to Seattle, and has had his work published in literary journals, like Five on the Fifth and Remington Review. David paints mostly impressionistic landscapes, seascapes, birds, and abstract art. His most recent show was on October 10th, 2024 at Verity Credit Union for the West Seattle Art Walk.