ISSUE SIXTEEN

Poetry

For Eight Hours, the Only Place I Can Sit is the Toilet. by Madisen Gummer
Dear Monochrome Heart by Karen Rigby
Pastoral by William Fargason
Crowded Drive-Thru At 3 In The Morning by Jeff Whitney
Submerged by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
THIS IS THE LIFE by Theo LeGro
I Never Understood Peter Pan until I Turned 24 by Paula Gil-Ordoñez Gomez
Lying by Patrick Kindig
At Waldenworld Park, I Lay Down and Wept by Karen Faris
Mother Dreams in Half-light by Mihir Bellamkonda
STRUCTURES by Tyler Michael Jacobs
Promise by Rebecca Brenner
Strawberries by Greg Sendi



Nonfiction

Season of Grief by Joanna Acevedo
Swallowed Elapse by Nevada Alde
Adrift by K T White

 

Fiction

Once, the Sound Dad and I Loved Most by Joel Hans
Habitual Creature by Anna Suszynski
Science by Patricia Quintana Bidar
Glitter Eyes by Luke McFarland
My Brother the Venus Flytrap by Will Musgrove

Art

Control by Kimberly Flynn
The Secret Hideout II by RUNA
Going to the Sun by GJ Gillespie

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff

Managing Editor Barbara Lock

Associate Managing Editors, Prose Tessa Rossi / Colleen Flaherty

Associate Managing Editor, Poetry Megan Nichols

Acquisition Editors Taylor Byas / Adrian Dallas Frandle

Poetry Editors Erica Abbott  / K.M. Crane / Keana Moreau / Greer McAllister / José Felipe Ozuna / Jessica Nirvana Ram / Kevin Risner / Lindsey Schaffer / Melissa Strilecki 

Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Katherine Dye / Jeanne-Marie Fleming / Brandi Handley /Ashley Kim / Genevieve Mills / William Cagle

Nonfiction Editors Camille U. Adams  / Sarah Catherine Golden / Arden Stockdell-Giesler / Ruby Djuna Haack / Tori Walters / Julian Guy

Visual Art Editor  Kalyn RoseAnne Livernois / Charlie Madison Taylor

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