Issue Art by Albert John Belmont | Above: “Xmas Eve” (2024, Oil on Canvas) | View Full Gallery

Poetry

Becky Aijala: Terraform | Pollination | Every Creature

Bruce Bailey: Moon Lit

Bobby Steve Baker: A Fox Visits the Curious Boy | The Curious Boy as Big Game Hunter | The Journey

Devon Balwit: Victor Hugo’s Hero | A Radical Assertion

Wendy BooydeGraaff: Scrambled Eggs | After the First Day of School | What’s for dinner tonight?

Cindy Buchanan: Here in the Land Where Desert Meets Sea | Hurricane

John Clark: Barefoot Morning

Tess Congo: Modern Asylums

Jack Cooper: Sour Dough | Making Sense

Callie Dean: Year of Jubilee | Life’s Work | The average internet user generates several billion bits of data per day

Morrow Dowdle: My Mother Never Called Me Beautiful | Ekphrastic: My Daughter Holds a Broken Heart

Bill Griffin: Extinction

Mureall Hebert: Essence | Un|know|ing

Zachary Jepsen: In Which the Boys Do Not Walk It Off

Patricia Joslin: Section 64 | Monday, Beyond the Busy Weekend

Danilo Marin: Arpoador | Date to Niterói | Ode Above Pelvis

Leyelle Mesa-Graham: About the Heron: Steeping in Sugar

Erin Slaughter: Song for the First-Person Anthropocene | The Killing of a Snakebird

Sarah Dickenson Snyder: Maybe-Gods | Autumn

Richard Allen Taylor: Tour Guide

Dean Marshall Tuck: Breakup Mixtape | Providence

Fiction

Bethany Tap: “The Machines Were Alive”

Lindsey James: “A Tribute to the Spirits of Street Corners Present”

Lori Barrett: “The Mermaid and the Prince Lived Happily Ever After in Toledo”

Mathew Lebowitz: “The Resurrection Machine”

Amelia Dornbush: “Tenure”


Nonfiction

Jeremy Schnee: “The Young Master Wannabe”

Brittany Micka-Foos: “Everything Is Awesome”

Justine Busto: “Educación”

Tara Marshall: “Ciao, Bella”

Leo Croff: “Up and Over”


Flash

Jane Hertenstein: “I Wish the Virgin Mary Was My Girlfriend”

Deborah L. Davitt: “Twenty-three and None”

Syrah Linsley: “pages to the ages”