ISSUE TWENTY-TWO

 

Poetry

What I Mean to Say Is This Isn’t About Aliens by T. De Los Reyes

roadkill season by Kathy Jiang

Mirror Listing, No Refunds by Stefanie Lee

Dog Museum by Arielle Kaplan

Flying Geese in Orbit by Christie M Buchovecky

Vultures by Jane Zwart

Love is a Fruit by Grace H. Zhou

Terracotta by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Ley Lines by Nick Daoust

Welbilt Spaceheater by DL Pravda

What Thou Lovest Well Remains American by Jeff Whitney

The Bravest Among Us by Guinotte Wise

 Prose

The Gunshine State by Joey Hedger

Everyone Wants to Be Division I by S. H. Woodgeard

The Replacements by Rowan MacDonald

You Deserve This by Nicholas Claro

The Daddy Factory by Christian Fuller

Beacon by Elizabeth Rosen

First on the Moon by S. L. Johnson

Back in the Tall Grass by Chrissy Stegman

Snake Lake by Rebecca van Laer

Mermua by Gerardo J. Mercado

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lock

Managing Editor Megan Nichols

Managing Poetry Editor David Eisenstat

Poetry Editors Erica Abbott

Poetry Readers DW Baker // Ashley Kim // Alicia Tebeau-Sherry // Emma Smith // Theodore Heil // K.M. Crane // Kevin Risner

Managing Prose Editor Tessa Rossi

Managing Editor, Long Form Fiction Suzy Eynon

Managing Editor, Flash Prose and Micros Tori Walters

Managing Editor, Speculative Fiction William Cagle

Prose Editors Brandon Haffner

Production: Theodore Heil

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