For a brief time, we enter another consciousness. As we stay inside another’s way of seeing the world, that experience leaves its trace. Each story invites us into a different interior.

When we step back out, the stories end. But something remains.

That lingering space, the one we carry with us after the door closes — is the fifth corner.

Published by The Fifth Corner Literary Society, a non-profit dedicated to literature, the arts, and independent publishing, The Fifth Corner is a literary journal and press devoted to dark literary fiction, commissioned artwork, and carefully curated works. Through CODA, our annual anthology, we gather the year’s most distinguished poetry into a permanent literary record.

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ISSUE NO. 2

SUMMER 2026

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Original dark fiction paired with commissioned artwork. AfterImage. Coda.

Issue No. 2 gathers six works of dark literary fiction, alongside commissioned artwork by Attia Hayee, the winning poem of the Coda Prize, and the inaugural Emerging Voices feature.

The complete issue is available exclusively in print.

The Dark Fiction Prize

Awarded to Alan Sincic
Summer 2026

The Coda prize

Awarded to Jennifer Browne

dark fiction

Look by Alan Sincic
The Little Man by Colleen Smith
In You, An Ending, A Beginning by Joe Butler
Psychostasia by Matt Hampton
The Most Beautiful Scarf in the World by Robert Black
Favourite Places by Devan Erno

Emerging Voices

Featuring a debut writer under the age of eighteen

When you See It by Landon MacDonald

Commissioned Artist

Attia Hayee

Editor-in-Chief

Aliona Ciumac

Curatorial Advisor

Lyndon Polan