Litmosphere Fall 2024

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Poetry

John Arthur: “A Crescent Moon Is a Trick of the Light” | “Clarion” | “At the library”

Joseph Bathanti: “Catharsis”

Despy Boutris: “Home & I Turn Growl Girl Again” | “Age Fourteen, Online Quiz”

Christopher Davis: “At the Grave of Hart Crane”

Michael Dechane: “Reprieval” | “What We Carry”

Mary Alice Dixon: “Low Country Corn with Cooper River Grit” | “Low Country Leather with Teeth and a Prophecy for Feet”

Olga Dugan: “In Memory” | “This is how you know: A Verse Parable”

Kisha Edwards-Gandsy: “My Friend Vanetta” | “Thaumatography”

Steph Ellen Feeney: “Pickled” | “Dead Queens” | “Yelling Pleasantries at the Saints”

Julie Esther Fisher: “Remind Me Why I Had You” | “Strings of Baling Twine” | “Small Alphabet for a Dying Language”

Carmen Germain: “Extinction Event” | “When it trotted up to doors of the hospital”

Ceridwen Hall: “True/False” | “Paper Stars” | “Rehearsal”

Paul Jones: “Reading Beowulf to My Son” | “Burial by Permission Only”

Susan L. Lin: “Invertebrate Oral Report (First Attempt)” | “How to Recover in a Stranger’s Home”

Elisabeth Murawski: “Passengers on the Green Line Train” | “Grounded”

Eric Nelson: “Ladylight” | “His Art” | “Beauty Loves Friction”

David Radavich: “Owl” | “Downstream”

Lucinda Trew: “yellow” | “color me pigeon”

George T. Wilkerson: “small price to pay” | “a letter for pops”

Short Fiction

Amanda Vitale: “The Last Trip”

Carly Midgley: “Lifeline”

E J Delaney: “Bottled Up”

Michael Nethercott: “Lamentation”

Nathan Alling Long: “The History of Things”

Pete Prokesch: “Felling Trees”

Sarah Archer: “Thurlene and the Ghost”


Flash Fiction

Beth Sherman: “Don’t Talk to Strangers” | “The Uglier Stepsister Never Learned to Make Sponge Cake”

Roberta Allen: “A Common Raven” | “Ben” | “Night Terrors”

Steve Cushman: “Imperial Ink” | “Departures”


Nonfiction

Deborah-Z Adams: “$11 and Mileage”