Maggie Hart THIRTY-FOUR DAYS BEFORE The woman entered the confessional room that Saturday afternoon without any shame or chagrin, an abnormality for a sinner at reconciliation. She slammed the door...
Wasima Khan Before there were boats, barbed wires, and frozen mornings in northern Europe, there was a courtyard in Aleppo where jasmine climbed the walls, and his sister sang to the birds. In the...
Sharon S.Y. Lee The birthday party has reached its frenzied apex and hurtles towards the cake cutting finale, but Sarah wishes that she could rewind time—before she set the party budget, before she...
Leah Mullen Our grandmothers used to speak to the Old Goddesses—those like dimpled dough, eyeless and petrified. But our grandmothers had had options. And our goddess had had enough of voluptuous...
Seth Peterson 2025 Poetry Spring Contest Winner Through a shattering of light, a mermaid knuckles out to say goodbye. Flaps her eel-black fin. A wishing tree dangles its microphone limbs, listening....
“Extended Stay” Collage Kale Hensley is a West Virginian by birth and a poet by faith. They live in Texas with their wife, best friend, and a menagerie of clingy pets. You can find more...
Storyteller Digital collage Elzbieta Zdunek is a collage artist working in digital, mostly grayscale compositions. Her work explores alienation, identity, and the subjectivity of perspective shaped...
Tim Thiện Nguyễn Sông có khúc, người có lúc –a Vietnamese proverb It was not their fault / the aunties and uncles / Ba Mẹcoming here when / (insert your favorite...
All Eyez on Me Oil paint Cycles Oil paint Amuri Morris is an artist based in Richmond, VA. She recently graduated from painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout the...
Interconnected Sand Watercolor Janelle Cordero is a poet, artist, and educator living in Spokane, Washington. Her writing has appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Driftwood Press, Jet...
