Issue 15 / 2024

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COVER ART by Ksenia Topaz

Contents

12TH ANNUAL CONTEST WINNERS
Morgan Ray (flash fiction) — "Mother of Broken Birds"
Kim Ramos (poetry) — "Tangal"

POETRY
Divya Mehrish — "The Moon Our Witness"
Kim Ramos — "Sonnet in Which I Am a Girl"
Katherine Indermaur — "Afterwhite"
Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan — "Fever Dream Casino"
Kelly Grace Thomas — "Shame"
Jeff Whitney — "I Used to Be With It, Then They Changed What It Was"
Josephine Gawtry — "Vegetarianism"
John Wojtowicz — "Hardworking Stiff"
Emily Corwin — "31" & "Arborescent"
Rita Mookerjee — "Big Ego Abecedarian"
Hayden Amos — "I've Lost Count of the Days I Wanted to Text You"
Shiyang Su — "On Translation, After Seeing Bethany Collins's The Odyssey: 2000/2017"
Isra Cheema — "Ode to Punjabi"
Jenna Lee — "Advice from an "Elephant Ear" Plant"

FICTION
Zoë Meager — "Dear Ocean"
Ronnie Yates — "Avalanche"
​Carl Lavigne — "The Lake Monster"
Kate Tooley — "How to Close a Box" & "You Can't Get to Heaven on the Road to Hell, but I-95 Will Eventually Get You to Florida"
William Hawkins — "All the Aliens Are Tilda Swinton"
Zen Ren — "The Month We Became Preppers"
Carl Lavigne — "The Last Remaining Angel at the Holy Light Bible Boys Overnight"
Blessing Culver — ​"Aureole"
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Claire He — "Cambrian Autopsy"
Tara DaPra — "Stages of Grief: Magical Thinking"

ART/COMICS
Joseph Worthen 
Kristin Emanuel
Patty Paine

BOOK REVIEWS
Grief Slut by Evelyn Berry reviewed by Davis Mercer
Where the Breastplate Meets the Blade by Gwen Hilton reviewed by Jessie McCarty
For Today by Carolyn Hembree reviewed by Dustin Pickering

Masthead

Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Editorial Assistant | Grace Shelton
Art & Design Editor / Layout & Design | meg willing
Poetry Editors | Billie R. Tadros
Assistant Poetry Editor | Tyra Douyon
Fiction Editor | Zach Yontz
Assistant Fiction Editor | Julia Coursey
Creative Nonfiction Editor | LaTayna McQueen
Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor | Jenny Robertson
Book Reviews Editor | Davis Mercer
Editors Emeritus | Shereen Adel, Ian Carlos Crawford, and Anthony Michael Morena
Readers | John Butoric, Christopher Heisserer, Saul Lemerond, Seth Rhoades, and Amanda Tolvaisa

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