ISSUE THIRTEEN

Poetry

Haloween by Brendan Bense
A Permeable Heart by David M. Alper
because you didn’t wash the dishes by Shlagha Borah
Maghrib by Neda Sarrami
Why Bother by Jaime Jacques
emergency ((unique chromosomes tightly wound, unwind slowly from dna)) rooms by Andrea Horowitz
To the God of Gas Station Bathrooms by Miriam Kramer
Sonnet for my Future Thirst Traps by Frances Klein
Night Fleeing by Aiden Heung
I’VE SEEN GOD by Niehsa Okere

Nonfiction

Bumping Into Walls by Christy Tending
Sound The Bones by Camille U. Adams
Fool’s Daughter by Natalli Amato
THE END by Erin Swanson

Fiction

Skin Hungry by Mialise Carney
Glass by Robert Warf
Right Down the Middle by Eric Williams
Night Drifting by Karen Guzman

Art

The Great Destroyer by Ashley Maximillian
The Robot by Kimi Palacios
Zahida’s Anger by Sabahat Wani

 

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief Tyler Pufpaff

Managing Editor Kalyn Livernois

Associate Managing Editor Barbara Lock

Assistant Managing Editors Tessa Rossi / Colleen Flaherty

Acquisition Editors Adrian Dallas Frandle / Taylor Byas

Poetry Editors Erica Abbott  / K.M. Crane / Rachael Crosbie  / Keana Moreau / Megan Nichols / Kevin Risner

Fiction Editors Lisa Croce / Dink Dinkins / Katherine Dye  / Jeanne-Marie Fleming  / Genevieve Mills

Nonfiction Editors Victoria Buitron  / Sarah Catherine Golden  / Tori Walters / Lily Andrews

Visual Art Editor c m taylor

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