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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Sept/Oct 2019

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Volume XII, Number 5

Fiction

Ananda Lima

Antropófaga
Joshua Shaw

Hurry Down the Chimney Tonight
Crystal Wilkinson

A Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember

Nonfiction

Carla Diaz

An Effort Toward Wholeness
Anna Hartford

Light & Time
Alison Light

Writing the Lives of “Common People”: Reflections on the Idea of Obscurity

Poetry

Grady Chambers

Bottle Fly
torrin a. greathouse

Against Yellow; The body of a girl…; Sonnet to be Printed…
Nomi Stone and Leah Zani

Battlefields, Fieldpoems

Drama

Samara Weiss

Lucrece from the Dark