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CONTENTS 

POETRY 

• Bret Yamanaka: 「Obake Obachan」

• Ashley Somwaru: "Pick What Story You Would Like Me to Become"

• Luiza Flynn-Goodlett: "At Love’s Truck Stop, Laramie, WY"

• Aza Pace: "Welcome to the Solar System, Welcome to the Woods"

• Chloe Martinez: "Spine" and "The Cupid Revealed in the Restoration of Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Talks Back"

• Ana Portnoy Brimmer: "Sex Sonnet I" and "Mercurial"

• Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Here’s a Love Poem Sleeping"

• Shelly Stewart Cato: "Alligator Alley" 

• Karisma Price: "I’m Always so Serious" and "And"

• Stella Wong: "[who are you]" and "[i am collecting]"

• Blaine Prescott: "Initial Sightings West of Modern Appalachia"

• Caitlin Roach: "In Oakland Cemetery" and "A Wedding"

• Emma Aylor: "High Plain"

• JSA Lowe: "Dear Ventilator" 

FICTION 

• Carmen Petaccio: "VR" 

• A. J. Jacono: "When We Remembered Zion"

• Allison A. deFreese: "The Night with James Dean"

• Phoebe Oathout: "Chainmail Bikini"

• Alex Pickett: "Petland"

NONFICTION 

• Storey Clayton: "Glass Houses"

• Jessica E. Johnson: "The Ghost Road"

• Laura Joyce-Hubbard: "A Zuihitsu: Harvesting Black Walnuts"

ART 

• Marynka Dovhanych: "Burning Rage," "On 'Stay Safe,'" "Intense Worry," "Put Spring on Hold," "Air Raid Siren," "Siege of Mariupol," "Russia Set Ukraine on Fire," and "Dog Food" 

• Lauren Rice: "Moonshapes," "Time Is a Sunset," "Bad Moon Rising (XO)," "The Maze," "Head on the Ground, Feet in the Clouds" "The Wrong Green," "Unearthed," and "Poor Pythagoras"