poetry
Matins & Say tomorrow doesn’t come** | by Hayley Bowen
“there was only him / saying I love you”
Ghazal Pronounced Guzzle | by Lily Sadighmehr
“Let us guzzle ghazals”
Rosewater | by Samuel A. Adeyemi
“You offered me your hand—inside of it, / the seed of a rose.”
Ars Poetica & Elegy & On Speaking | by Tuhin Bhowal
“Make sure you come hungry –”
prose
Opportunity, Montana | by Becca Rose Hall | fiction
“we had planned the whole wedding for the week when Missoula fills up with lilacs”
To My Problem Child | by C. Morris | creative nonfiction
“Telling all these stories over again, it does paint you as my problem child, that’s for sure. But let me tell one more.”
Michael Chin’s Newest Novel My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So Is Yours, Reviewed | by Jay Sapinski | book review
“… an enchanting coming-of-age story about an Asian boy attempting to understand what happiness is.”
I’ll Stop the World and Melt with You | by Jeanine Skowronski | fiction
“… things were getting too serious. Someone would have gotten burnt.”
Lawn Mowers | by Joshua James Amberson | fiction
“It would always be work, even if it was work she liked.”
Beach Walk | by Lisa K. Harris | creative nonfiction
“The sea swallows the empty shell; its rosy-mouthed pinkness spirals beneath a greenish-grey wave until lost to view.”
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