Issue 14 / 2023

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COVER ART by Yuko Kyutoku

Contents

11TH ANNUAL CONTEST WINNERS
Ellen Rhudy (flash fiction) — "The Blob Desires"
Grace Q. Song (poetry) — "Dead Ends"

POETRY
Bill Hollands — "Dragging for Fish"
Tyler Raso — "Chapter XLI. And Matches Made of Human Fingers"
Alina Stefanescu — "Cacotopia"
Sara Ellen Fowler — "Black licorice"
Ziyi Yan — "fish(ing)"
Taylor Cornelius — "We Made a Hole in the Ozone Layer"
Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio — "School of Rock (2007)"
Shana Ross — "Focus, said Antonio Banderas"
Sydney Ling — "Homecoming"
Samuel Piccone — "Palinopsia"
Carina Stopenski — ​"il mostro, or the church chastises its daughter"

FICTION
James Tadd Adcox — "This Man Does Not Exist"
Jill Sisson Quinn — "Hunting Season"
Lisa Beebe — "The Pool Party"
Joshua Wetgen — "New Year's Resolutions: 1991"
Carl Boon — "Who's That Girl?"
Melissa Llanes Brownlee — "Menehune"
Moisés R. Delgado — ​"Do You Think She's Still Down There Rolling Dice?"
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Melissa Nunez — "Before"
Dylan Boyer — "Everywhere But Rockland"
RL Wheeler — "Still Life; or, For Moments I Hold One Hand in My Other"

ART/COMICS
Grace Worley
Yuko Kyutoku
Sean Riley
Carolyn Supinka 

BOOK REVIEWS
Dear Egg by Danny Unger and Bottomlands by Madeline Trosclair-Rotolo, both reviewed by Davis Mercer

Masthead

Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Editorial Assistant | Jasmine Patterson
Art & Design Editor / Layout & Design | meg willing
Poetry Editors | Billie R. Tadros
Assistant Poetry Editor | Audrey Gidman
Fiction Editor | Zach Yontz
Assistant Fiction Editor | Julia Coursey
Creative Nonfiction Editor | LaTayna McQueen
Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor | Jenny Robertson
Editors Emeritus | Shereen Adel, Ian Carlos Crawford, Sophie Klahr, & Anthony Michael Morena
Readers | ​E. Kerr, Saul Lemerond, & Amanda Tolvaisa

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