Vol. 55 No. 1 (2026): Spring

From the Editors

Letter from the Editors

Sophia Foster, Savanna Williams

3
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Art

Serpent's Gaze

Gabriella Hanquier

9
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Mourning Dove's Stave

Marcus Z. Ramey

15
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Mother in the Garden with Hydrangeas

Olivia Daniels

42
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"emergence"

Remington Brown

21
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Diva Pose ;)

Sophia Sturgeon

54
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Misery

Susanne Bush

90-91
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Anticipation (Nicole)

Robert Smith

103
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Your Porcelain Dolls

Malana Kramer

108-109
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The Seen, Refracted

Shivam Patel

114
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Every Poem is Your Name

Emile Tipton

131
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Mold

Lyric Stille

138
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Is There a Prince Charming? I Don't Think So! (best of)

Olivia Daniels

156
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I Wonder/Wander

Juls Serowik

164-165
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Dogbite

Remington Brown

176
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Smile

Anthony Stewart

181
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I Happened Upon My Gender (from my mom's magazine)

Meg Markarian

183
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Final Resting

Sarah Hollcraft

217
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A Piece of My Love #2

Sarah Hollcraft

225
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Too Tired

Chasity Goliday

230
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Maria

Robert Smith

241
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Mimicry

Sarah Hollcraft

252
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My Story

Gabriella Hanquier

258
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Ancestral Faces

Gabriella Hanquier

270
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Basket Weave I

Gabriella Hanquier

274
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Summer

Anthony Stewart

284
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Judith Slaying Holofernes

Lea Brocken

289
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And the Monster Was Right Behind Them...

Chasity Goliday

296
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We Still Cope

Brianna Sim

299
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Boaster

Anthony Stewart

304
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Harbinger Tree

Remington Brown

309
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A Piece of My Love

Sarah Hollcraft

318
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Creative Non-fiction

Brushing Shoulders with a Long Lost Hero

Jacob Venable

22-28
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Being Collectable

Isabella Park

105-106
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another letter she’ll never read

Kate Coffin

112-113
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Why Wouldn’t You Just Leave

Amber Williams

139
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Rescurrection Ferns

Elizabeth Terhorst

157-161
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Sex As Dessert

Signe Nettum

168-170
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Scowling Sergeant

Amy Schleppenbach

233-240
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Paci-Fist

Jacob Venable

244-251
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Tamango Boro’s: The Taste of Nostalgia

Kira Jansen

265-269
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The FasMart Sodality (best of)

Emily Shipman

275-281
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PERMANENT RECORD

Maggie Hoppel

305-306
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Fiction

The Elevator

Kira Jansen

12-14
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Scotomaphobia

Jay Loperena-Martin

17-20
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Mirror Man

Gerardo Garcia-Merida

29-40
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Sunlight You Can Hold

Julieta Blanco

45-53
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Without Breaking Stride

Skyler Kissel

94-101
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Spanish Fall

Katelyn M. Stewart

115-120
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Dadaism with a Blood Orange (best of)

Ella G. Bundy

122-130
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Changeling

Jay Loperena-Martin

132-136
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An Inquisition of Loyalty

Heather Mandel

141-149
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Josephine the Dragon and the Isle of You

Tilly Wininger

150-155
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Virgin

Ella G. Bundy

172-175
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Cathedral of the Countess

Elena Saorrono

178-179
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Travel Makes You Ravenous

Emily Shipman

220-222
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My Lover Is Dead

Tilly Wininger

226-228
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The Scream

Lucy Fukada

319-325
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Hunger

Eris Hembree

326-327
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Screenwriting

Bardolomew and the Chords of Power

Jacob Venable

56-89
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Blood Money (best of)

Emily Shipman

190-215
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Poetry

Ouroboros in 220 Cycles

Heather Mandel

300-301
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Baby

Evan Allee

8
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American Emesis

Eris Hembree

10-11
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Jackdaw Daydreams

Marcus Z. Ramey

16
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Beautiful Stranger

Heather Mandel

41
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ELEANOR REALLY

Maggie Hoppel

55
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Guitar Showcase

Elizabeth Terhorst

92-93
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Barns Isn’t Over

Maggie Hoppel

102
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Chitose in February

Nisha Cavendish

104
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mostly i want a husband

Maggie Hoppel

107
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Worshipping Him

Jazz Walker

110-111
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Our Love

Marcus Z. Ramey

121
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How Haunting Goes

Kaleigh Washburn

137
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My Love is All Consuming

Jasper Wisecarver

140
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retrouvailles

Maggie Hoppel

162
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To the Soot, Anew

Naomi J. M. Estes III

163
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What The Womb Couldn’t Shape

Ella G. Bundy

166-167
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A Imaginação

Elizabeth Terhorst

171-172
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Blood in the Bushes

Caedence Jones

177
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Domesticated

Tilly Wininger

180
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Of the Long Ago

Naomi J. M. Estes, III

182
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E Morte, Vitam

Eris Hembree

184-185
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Red Leather Couch Reformation

Emily Shipman

186-187
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Relapse

Elizabeth Terhorst

188-189
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amputation

Maggie Hoppel

216
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Texts I Didn’t Send

Kim Kile

218-219
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Iona Road

Caedence Jones

223-224
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Slumber

Kim Kile

229
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Think of the JOY!

Samantha Stapleton

231
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Where The Cattails Sing

Emile Tipton

232
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Names Cannot Die

Estes Naomi J. M., III

242-243
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Fox Prints

Marcus Z. Ramey

253
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Wicked Winter

Caedence Jones

254-255
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59.4572ºN 135.3145ºW

Emily Shipman

256-257
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La Mexa

Isabella Christenson

259
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Tlazotlaliztli

Isabella Christenson

260-261
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If You’d Been a Deadbeat

Tegan Blackburn

262-263
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Coin Toss

Kim Kile

264
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São Paulo

Elizabeth Terhorst

271-273
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Soup Night

Charlize Rawlins

282-283
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reject humanity. become crab.

Lily Coffey

285-286
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If My Cat Were a Human

Samantha Stapleton

287-288
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Et Tu, Brute?

Tilly Wininger

290
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Stargazing

Teya Anderson

291
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I Killed You Last Night

Eris Hembree

292
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Catholicism/Cynicism

Juls Serowik

293
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Glystroach

Remington Brown

294-295
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Shadow Self

Marcus Z. Ramey

297
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United Airlines Flight 2317: IND->SMF

Nisha Cavendish

298
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Subway Station

Azro-Solar A.

302-303
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Shiva

Elena Saorrono

307-308
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An Exhibit by Grief, the Sculptor (best of)

Evan Allee

310-317
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