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Spring | Summer 2025

Poetry

*Muddy Lines ~ Shyla Shehan

Dutiful Son ~ John Davis Jr.

Iris ~ Johnathan Lay

Ode to a Zoo Fence ~ Christa Fairbrother

Custodian Philanthropist ~ Lita Kurth

~Finalist for Editor’s Choice Award~

*A coastline thinks aloud in 2024 ~ Courtney Hitson

There Must be a Pun in Rubicon ~ Ewen Glass

If You Are One of Those Who Folds Your Underwear, Then We Won’t Be Going on Picnics ~ John Dorroh

Group ~ Annie Przypyszny

*Escapeway ~ Simone Lappert, translated from the German by Fabienne Rink

Fiction

~~~Editor’s Choice Award~~~

*Thieves of the Western World ~ Ramona Reeves

A Great Awakening Light ~ Jennifer Paddock

*The Dabbawala ~ Mikaela Mari

Solomon ~ Daniel Webre

Flash Fiction

*Across the Line ~ Kris Faatz

Survival ~ James Hartman

The Tastee Award ~ James Sullivan

Illegal ~ Jeffree Morel

Creative Nonfiction

~finalist for Editor’s Choice Award~

*Home Range ~ Jennifer Howard

Some Stoplights Shouldn’t Exist, That’s Why I Run Them ~ Devon Mello

Paulina’s Dream ~ Mark Brazaitis

Threshold ~ Nina Sichel

Portfolio

Artist Statement: My Father’s Camera ~ Edmund R. Schubert

Photographs ~ Edmund R. Schubert

* Long List for Editor’s Choice Award