In our first all flash nonfiction issue, Matt Kelley traces the arc of a relationship in “Will You Please Allow Me to Apologize, Please?” In “Thank You All for Your Helpful Opinions,” Jennifer D. Munro lists all things said to her over the course of a family crisis. And Kory Wells remembers the power of music in “I Felt All Flushed with Fever.”
This issue features images from the Indian Space Agency’s launch of a satellite to the L1 point between the Earth and the Sun.
Images from Aditya L-1, India’s first space-based mission to study the solar system’s biggest object, named after Surya, the Hindu god of the Sun, who is also known as Aditya. L1 stands for Lagrange point 1, a spot where the gravitational forces of two large objects, such as the Sun and the Earth, cancel each other out, allowing a spacecraft to “hover.” The pictures of the Sun’s surface were captured by the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.