ISSUE NINE

Poetry

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice by Nancy White
Untitled by Ivan de Monbrison
I Fail at Portraying A Teen Witch in Drag by Spencer Silverthorne
Resurrection by Stefanie Kirby
The Gods of Creation and Destruction by Jared Pearce
planetarium by Sheila Dong
Performance by Amy Gong Liu
Fight Me by Jeffrey Hermann
Oh, Albert by Jeffrey Hermann
When Weeds Sing by Bethany Reid
Zack by John Sieracki
Past Life in Peripheral Vision by Sophia Marina
Views by V. Joshua Adams
Fatherling, Father-thing, Flutter Feathers by Masha Kisel
SMASH! by Paul Rousseau
Language of Rivers by Natalie Marino

Nonfiction

Seven Discussions to Bring to a Debate on Nature vs. Nurture by Melissa Dittrich
Involuntary by Amelia Wright
Conspiracies in Fatherhood by Kayla Jessop
Six Gun Fights by Melissa Flores Anderson
The Phone Call by Kelsey Clayman

Fiction

The Navel Gazer by Gayle Brandeis
Look at Us by Suzy Eynon
Contours by Ian Lindsay
Fixed Star by Anne Rouse
Peaches by Damion Meyer
Emergency Room Diagnosis by Christi R. Suzanne
The Mudlark by Gabrielle Griffis

 

Art

Featured Artist + Interview: Delta NA
Home Remedies by Elliot-Orchard Blowen
A Covid Expression: Corona and the Deadly Plagues by Charles E. Humes Jr
Alaska by Rahil Najafabadi
Opal by Danika E. Hollis

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff

Managing Editor Kalyn Livernois

Associate Managing Editor Barbara Lock

Poetry Editors Erica Abbott / Phuong Anh / Rachael Crosbie / Adrian Dallas Frandle / Heather Liz / Day Heisinger-Dixon / Kalyani Bindu / Tianna Bratcher / K.M. Crane / Keana Moreau / Megan Nichols / Kevin Risner / Sher Ting

Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Barbara Lock / Katherine Dye / Colleen Flaherty / Jeanne-Marie Fleming / Genevieve Mills / Tessa Rossi

Nonfiction Editors Victoria Buitron / Kira Carney / Sarah Catherine Golden / Heather Liz / Janet Pfeffer / Pascale Potvin / Dawn Raffel / El Rhodes /
Dillon Rubalcava / Michaella Thornton

Visual Art Editor c m taylor

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