With our 5th annual contest, we put our contributors to work. In this issue, you'll find stories and poems set in workplaces ranging from a refugee camp kitchen in Gaza to a research station in Antarctica. Included among them are the winners and honorable mentions from the contest, along with some of our other favorite work from the reading period, with a total of 7 stories, 4 poems, and 1 suite that all bring their own unique perspective to work.