Fall 2025 118

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Editor: Terry L. Kennedy

Associate Editor: Jessie Van Rheenen

Fiction Editor: Bri Summey | Assoc. Fiction Editor: Jenna Dorn

Poetry Editor: Nicholas Powell | Assoc. Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Bruce

Editorial Assistant: Louise Scoville

Editorial Interns: Linda Parker Boike, Luc Boulard, Destini Ferraro, Kelsey Gartner, Jonathan Grise, Raymond Jarrell, Seth Mahoney, Julia Nelson

Editorial Board: Xhenet Aliu, Stuart Dischell, Holly Goddard Jones, Derek Palacio, Emilia Phillips

Consulting Senior Editors: Julie Funderburk, Lee Zacharias

Table of Contents

Dedicated to Christopher Swensen (1985 – 2025)

Fiction

  • The Lucky Buddha, Suqi Karen Sims
  • Pockets, Michelle Ross
  • Stringy Evans Lived by a Code, Glenn Taylor
  • Love Languages, Marylou Fusco
  • On the Red Sand Shore at the Edge of the Night Swamp, Sophia Huneycutt
  • Vows, K.C. Allison
  • Hoarders of the Universe, K.S.M.
  • The Sun People, Emma Cairns Watson

Poetry

  • Golden Shovel as Private Theology, Becka Mara McKay
  • The Bridge in Summer, Eliana Franklin
  • I Read an Article about Seahorses at the Fertility Clinic, Jackson Benson
  • Strong as Death is Love, Lucas Dean Clark
  • Elvis, Tara Bray
  • Scopaesthesia, Sarah Brockhaus
  • Forms of Love, Anna Lewis
  • Agkistrodon, Adam Tavel
  • Amen and Amen, Kari Gunter-Seymour
  • The Honeywagons, Matt Poindexter
  • Keys, Alicia Rebecca Myers
  • One Hundred Kinds of Light, Callie Plaxco