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ISSUE 9.2

welcome
issue contents
> poetry
> fiction
> nonfiction
contributors
interviews
featured art
our editors

Mea stands in a red sweater with a scenic nature view in the background

Mea Andrews

“Languages are a way of connection and knowing even bits of other languages opens up your ability to connect with people and their culture and experiences.”

Bio photo of Jessica Baker

Jessica Baker

“both were leaving me with a lot of unresolved anger, but while I couldn’t do anything about Katie, I could take care of the ants.”

Ellery sits near the ocean, facing the camera in a blue jacket

Ellery Beck

“When attempting to make things strange and surprising, smaller direct images in between the more shocking ones tend to keep my poems grounded.”

Cameron is smiling and surrounded by purple lighting. She is wearing a red striped dress.

Cameron Bocanegra

“I imagined the Bible’s women as modern women and saw them scapegoated and shamed religiously at school.”

This image features a selfie of Rohan sitting at the front of a bus. He is smiling and is wearing a red and white checkered shirt.

Rohan Buettel

“I felt a strong sense of frustration, boredom and a desire for activity. Yet a human desire for action has no effect on the inexorable processes of nature.”

Bio photo of Chelsea L. Cobb

Chelsea L. Cobb

“every single person who has an Achilles’ heel, no matter their gender, sexual orientation, belief, creed, etc., has this body part on them that is named after a (rumored) queer demigod.”

A black and white photo of Hannah smiling is captured. She is wearing a shirt with a floral design and hoop earrings.

Hannah Dow

“But I realized at a certain point in my life that placing my trust in men, as well as Catholicism—bodies that professed to want only to protect me—led to disillusionment because of the false promises and manipulation”

Image of Jessica Furtado

Jessica Furtado

“People expect romanticism and flowery phrases, but love and poetry are so much messier than that. Love is unexpected and chaotic.”

Photo of Jen Gardner

Jen Gardner

“I told him that it felt like women’s minds would never be as valued as men’s bodies.”

Bio photo of David Gillette

David Gillette

“I can’t imagine building a story without first knowing where it is taking place since that gives me a stage where I can see my characters move and interact.”

E is featured with their hand in their short, blonde hair. They are wearing a short sleeved, collard, button up shirt. Behind them is a building surrounded by nature scenery.

E Kerr

“I think the multimodality of the work directly correlates to how trauma and identity manifest; the representations of trauma and identity in my writing and my artwork, are as close as I can get to my even more material traumatic experiences and identity expressions.”

Elizabeth Kirkhorn

“The writing process itself—tackling layer by layer, section by section, admitting to more and more with each pass—definitely felt reflective of how we come to terms with our battle scars.”

David Meischen

“The narrative drops back and moves forward, interweaving scenes and events that allow me to explore two versions of what family can mean.”

Bio photo of J.B. Polk

J. B. Polk

“What if? What if, tomorrow, I open a book, or sit at my computer and discover I can’t remember words?”

Bio photo of Shalini Rana

Shalini Rana

“This is the first angry poem I’ve written, tied directly to this racial microaggression, but it actually arrived out of writing and thinking about my favorite tree, which used to live on my university’s campus before it got cut down.”

Bio photo of Amanda Roth

Amanda Roth

“For a while, it felt like the cardinals that arrived at our backyard feeder were our only friends.”

Bio photo of Frankie A. Soto

Frankie A. Soto

“I want to be authentic and flawed and human. I want the reader to know there is bravery in emotional connection, in redemption, in honesty within yourself.”

Bio photo of Samantha Steiner

Samantha Steiner

“I understood this story was about the Big Questions, the who-am-I and how-big-is-this-universe questions. A hypothetical planet and a mentally vulnerable protagonist feel like entry points into that conversation.”

Bio photo of Meghan Sterling

Meghan Sterling

“While being a mother is the tenderest, most powerful experience of my life, the longing for solitude and wilderness can become overwhelming.”

Karen J. Weyant

“In essence, I didn’t start this piece exploring different pressures between young men and women, but it turned out that way.”

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