Table of Contents

Issue 8: The Fall Issue

From the Editors


Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
Friendship in the desert
I arrive in the night, looking

Max Schmidt Wheeler
How to Become a Tree

Silas Denver Melvin
childlike
that summer,
bloodline

Brad Stumpf
Picnic In My Desk Drawer

Bleah Patterson
I tell my fiance I wish I were a worm so that I could wriggle around him all day long

Rabbitfeet
Queer as Dogs

Ava Chen
POSTMORTEM, CONCERT

Cat Rocketship
The Horned God’s Wild Garden

Bri Griffith
My Dad: Mindfreak

Koss
Wuthering Heights

Taylor Manning
horseshoe

Paddy Qiu
The 7 Train

Aaliyah Anderson
In Dust

Jezzelle H R Kellam
This Place Isn’t Mine
Reverence For My Cell

Emma Janssen
The Beached Whale

Francine Witte, Patricia Q. Bidar, & Claudia Monpere
Teeth

Luke Tan
Consumption

Arah Ko, Eros Livieratos, & Maya McOmie
Prodding for Wings to Come

Kim Ramos
The Girls of the Midwest

Brea’n Thompson
Hands of Fate
The Warrior

Lexi Pelle
2000’s Eyebrows

Evander Lang
Crab Deliverance

Shannon Clem
WHY AREN’T YOU ART—?

Sarah Mills
Every Morning I Look in the Mirror and Say Today Will Be Beautiful

Donna Vorreyer
Celebrity

Mia-Jo Bella
AUBADE WITH(OUT) DEATH

Robin Young
Planetary E-lectric
The Gallery of Lost Fish

Claire Lawrence
Gills

Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
We All Want To Be Overdressed For The Afterlife

Lillian Wang
Pescatarian Dinner: Two Photographs

Megan Borocki
What if I’m Simply a Dirty Earthworm? What If I’m a Dirty Man, What Then? What If I’m Nothing But a Sexless Worm?
Field Notes No. 11

Emma Rowan
Good Blood, Under the Bed & In the Bathtub

Luke Johnson
Carbon Pressure

Helen Chen
October Inertia

Zary Fekete
Csigák

Bill Hollands
Last Hurrah

Prosper Aluu
Two Paintings

Elizabeth Joy Levinson
Facts about hummingbirds
Survey

Timothy Burns
Electric Lady

Shaw Patton
A Deep Forget

Justin Carter
Three Excerpts from Language Treaty

Robbie Maakestad
Bill Murray Ponders at Taco Bell

Jim Ross
Two Photographs

Edward Thomas-Herrera
Hagar Shores, Michigan (Memorial Day Weekend, 2023)