The ToC for 34 Orchard Issue 13, Spring 2026, has arrived! The issue will be released on Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Sooner or later, that delusion you created to make the pain of a traumatic reality feel safer, the one you created to get through it, breaks down. When it does, it’s like being destroyed all over again.

In Issue 13, twenty artists cope with the breakdown of delusion. A town believes its missing youth troop is somewhere safe despite a dead scoutmaster and strange clues left behind—but the truth they’re ignoring isn’t the one they would’ve imagined, and it’s far worse. An orca shows us that motherhood is fraught with the delusion that she can always keep her offspring safe. A couple is shattered to discover that not only can one romantic evening in the woods fail to repair their relationship, it can make things uglier. A desperate soul hooked on tarot cards continuously refuses to accept their answers. And Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s wedding gown, destroyed and rebuilt before the big day, was an omen that Camelot itself would come apart at the seams, an omen willfully unacknowledged.

Sometimes, being trapped in a trauma cycle can yield surprising things.

Welcome to the house that won’t let you live the lie.

Welcome to 34 Orchard.

Cover: Leaving Las Vegas – Trisha J. Wooldridge

Boys – Jeremiah Towle

I Found a Leg Bone in My Yard – A.M. Symes

An Orca Mourns in Puget Sound – Kelsey Oliver Imanishi

September Whitecaps Whip Up in the Bay – Kate LaDew

Once in a Black Moon – Mike Deady

A Heart Broken – Míša Hejná

The Fire – Keira Reynolds

Rot – Meg Douty

Fortune Telling – MJ Vickers

Descent to the Planet of the Gremlins – J.H. Siegal

The Last Road Tripper – Andrew Majors

The Bath – Elizabeth J. Coleman

The Alligator – Christopher Hann

The Unrequited Love of the Ocean – Ray Chanteur

The Ocean is Haunted and So Am I – H.V. Patterson

Last Year – Jennifer Winston Mayette

What Sort of Angels and Why – Matthew Thomas Bernell

The fox. – Priya Evans

I Was an Irrelevant Man – Cassondra Windwalker

Arrives here https://34orchard.com/issues/ on the 34 Orchard issues page on April 25!