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Issue 40

Fall 2025

Poetry & Short Prose

Everyone Needs a Bit of Spiritual Devotion
Mary Biddinger

This Castle Is a Creature
Emma Bolden

Mutation
Callie B. Dean

Cleaning Out My Uncle’s Place
Nathan Fako

BirthQuake
Adam Greenfield

Dad Called Her Gazelle
Jeff Harvey

After the Harvest
Jennifer Randall Hotz

How to learn castellano
Courtney Justus

UnNamed
Beth Kanter

The Bees
Sigrun Susan Lane

My Father Does Not Speak of Animals
Natalia Martinez

Dove Woman
Maud Burnett McInerney

The Nurse Log
Luci Shaw

In Your Absence
Beate Sigriddaughter

Every Poem About This Season Now Becomes a Lie
Brian Simoneau

The Montague House
Hillary Smith-Maddern

To be ashes in an urn
Annie Stenzel

Reasons Why You Still Haven’t Buried That Brown Paper Bag
Megan Stolz

October (After My Hysterectomy)
Claire Taylor

Blessed Is
Eric K. Taylor

Exeunt
Marjorie Tesser

After the Fall We Sit in a Dingy Kitchen
Rita Tiwari

Between Storms
Brett Warren

Pedagogy

Take-Home Assignment: Teaching Creative Writing Through Online Journaling
Danielle Shi

Reviews

This Terrible Love: A Review of Inconsolable Objects by Nancy Miller Gomez
Simone Muench

Everyday Bravery: A Review of Ring by Michelle Lerner
Jennifer Poteet

Notes to My American Self: A Review of The Familiar by Sarah Kain Gutowski
Kimberly Ann Priest

More Than Fiction: A Review of The Briars by Stephanie Parent
Daniel Schulz

The Subtle Thread: A Review of Odysseus’ Daughter by Cammy Thomas
Elizabeth Sylvia

Interviews

Mining the Imaginative Power of the Occult: A Conversation Between Novelists
Beth Castrodale & Ellen Birkett Morris