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Fiction
I Don’t Want Me Either by Carly Alaimo
No One is Coming to Save You by Sarah Bradley
The Bayou by Amy DeBellis
Stray Bullets by Lacy Arnett Mayberry
Søren Weeps Piña Colada by Helena Olufsen
A Psalm by Brian Russell Roberts
The Loquacious Cowboy Gets Abducted by the Laconic Aliens by Aaron Sandberg
Nonfiction
The Good Friday Quake by Debra Dean
Jealousies by Hope Henderson
With Teeth by Sam Paul
In Maine by Kayann Short
On Rotting by Keene Short
Poetry
The Pistol & the Pack by Ginger Ayla
Acorns in the City by Gregory Calabro
Little Girl, What Preparations Are You Making for Eternal Life? by Crystal Cox
On Prayer by Joy David
Mens Rea by Kurt David
Snow by Jen Frantz
All You Need Is Love by Luis Lopez-Maldonado
Scar by Nancy Mitchell
Os est Os by Andrew Payton
THIS POEM IS ABOUT by Lauren Saxon
Date Night by Alex Tretbar
Art Gallery
Cover Art: “Ensomhet” by Kel Hudson
“Girls Portraits” & ” Look” by Kateryna Bortsova
“So You Can Be Comfortable” by Ava Bergen
“Sunflowers” by Nataliia Burmaka
“They Rejected Me, I’m A Monster 1″ & “They Rejected Me, I’m A Monster 2” by Rachel Coyne
“Mask 1″ & “Strutting” by Susan Dashiell
“Alex at the Pool” & “Humpback Whales, Mother and Daughter” by Lesley Goodyear
“Lady Silence” by Anna Maeve
“Do Not Bend” by Irakli Mirzashvili
“Unrestricted” & “Vocal” by Michael Moreth
“Strangers in the Museum (Dancing Cranes)” by Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung
“vorübergehend sind wir hier” by Mirka Walter
“Sometime Soon,” “Breathe It In,” “Here When You Need It,” “Ebb and Flow,” & “Intuition” by Rachel Wold
Masthead
Editor-in-Chief – Sophia Ross
Managing Editor – Taylor Schaefer
Poetry Editor – Susan Muth
Assistant Poetry Editor – Victoria Reynolds
Fiction Editor – K. R. Mullins
Assistant Fiction Editor – Connor Harding
Nonfiction Editor – Ashlen Renner
Assistant Nonfiction Editor – Faith Palermo
Website Editor – Elena Macdonald
Social Media Editor – Nicholas Ritter
Layout and Design Editor – Bri Chapman
Incarcerated Writers Project Editor – Chelsea Lebron
Faculty Advisor – Jason Hartsel
Art Editorial Team
Readers
Abigail Mills, Angelina Morin, Arpita Roy, Austin LaVigne, Bareerah Ghani, Bodie Fox, Bri Chapman, Camille Rimbawa, Elizabeth Terrell, Elena Macdonald, Gracie Donovan, Grace Wood, Ivan Antonio Moore, Jacob Sharp, Jaime Goh, Chris McGlone, Jessika Bouvier, Joseph Giglio, Katherine Harnisch, Katey Funderburgh, Madeline Merritt, Mark Perkins, Maya Gudapati, Radhika Wheelock, Sarah Jordan, Scott Hovdey, Shabnam Bozzelli, Sophia Ross, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Taylor Schaefer, Thomas Mckenzie
Special Thanks
Jason Hartsel, David S. Carroll, Kathryn Mangus and the George Mason University Office of Student Media, Gregg Wilhelm and the George Mason University Creative Writing Program
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