Cover Art by Li Lin

Editor-in-Chief: Maisy Phelps

Managing Editor: Zach Schrag

Community Director: Rachel Goodman

Creative Director: Nicole Collingwood

Public Relations Manager: KaNeshia Hook

Web Editor: Denton Ohler

Assistant Web Editor: Miles Kovnick

Fiction Editor: Elizabeth Motes

Assistant Fiction Editor: Sam Blankenship

Poetry Editor: December Verbout

Assistant Poetry Editor: Malia Levison

Nonfiction Editor: Chriss Huff

Assistant Nonfiction Editor: Kayleigh Boomgaard

Faculty Advisor: Ryan Drendel

Editorial Staff: Emile Estrada, Augustine Obasi, Kevin Walker

Readers: Amy Aggergaard, Lorna Baker, Shaye Barber, Sabrina Brown, Raquel Caballero, Angelina Cruz, Robert Fahey, Jillian Garfield, Scott Harris, Alexis Haws, Riley Lare, Elias Lindstrom, Dominique Moreno, Anilysa Roman, Jaclyn Russek, Sierra Shwani, Taryn Toombs, Nicole Wortman, Taylor Yoshii

2025 / VOLUME 31

Ordell Bizahaloni
Reruin

Ellen Boomer
Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon

Catherine Broadwall
Glacial

Kathy Bruce
Metamorphosis

Roger Camp
Apartment Reflection, Yerevan Armenia

Seán Carlson
Lepidopterophobia

Danielle Charette
Are Even the Birds Chained to the Sky?

Lucas Chini
Grasshopper // Grasshopper

Ryan Clark
Ripe for Development

Seth Copeland
from the Surface World

Gray Dawson
Marinara Sauce

Panika M. C. Dillion
the ten of floods

John Dorroh
While We’re Away

Eamonn Gallagher
The Golden Turtles

Kimberly Gibson-Tran
Teacup: A Secret History

Peter Grandbois
Crow tries to fill the silence

Larissa Hauck
False Realities

David Joseph
Born to Read Wilde
Shoefish

Beverly Joyce
Lake View Flowers

Cary Kinross-Wright
Heartwood

Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
The Princess and the Golem

Jennifer Lang
BLICKDICHT
Schichtenweise

Cathy Lautenbach
Sometime After

Mark MacAllister
Things to Do While Awaiting Reincarnation

J. Nehemiah
I’m Gone, If It’s For Me

Ners Neonlumberjack
Tiny Neon Lumberjack

samodH Porwagamage
My Fountain

Verena Raban
Day Day
Day Day

Nicholas Ritter
Sun

Sjafril Riz
Balaa

Richard Robbins
The Last Kokanee

C.C. Russell
Echoes Of Fire

John Stuloeff
Heart Problems

Mirka Walters
abstract nude

Charles Webb
Squirt

Tanya L. Young
Reversal Rehearsal
Saint John