Omar Khoury I pressed my nose upon my mother’s sleeve, the incense nestled within it, both welcoming and overwhelming. Her hair whips thin, their curls like cresting waves crashing upon themselves....
“Gaza” Digital art Fuad Alymani was born in 1996, and is currently based in Prague. He holds degrees in contemporary visual arts from Birzeit University in Palestine and Konstfack...
Abigail Ham 2023 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner I Fight and flight are the typical human reactions to threat, but they’re not the only possibilities. Children in general can’t fight or...
Maeve Barry 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Janet lies in the bathtub with the phone shouldered to her ear. In a long lace dress with its back zipper open. It sags off her chest. She sits in her...
Julie Marie Wade Maybe it starts here: bright swatch of color behind the closet door, yellow as a fisherman’s slicker. The swatter, they called it, and you thought about it even when you weren’t...
“Biltmore Ballgown Triple 10” “Coral Reef Crysanthemum 2” Jim Ross JIM ROSS jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With a graduate...
RJ Equality Ingram For Wesley Gibson Often I have imagined myself arguingSoftly w/ the wind & wake the way oarsSlip in & out of the murk barely a splashA quiet night on an...
“I am from Neptune” “Agnes from Enceladus” Lena Snow LENA SNOW is a fine artist based in Germany who currently has her studio in a small town on the edge of the Black Forest (Gaggenau) where...
Peter Vertacnik –after Patric Dickinson All the doors are locked. The dog’s been walked. Each tap, each burner off. No dome-light glows in the garage. Through that...
