Issue 18.2

Fiction

Nahal Suzanne Jamir

• Pilgrim

Lexi J. Lee

• Mama Is in America Free for non-subscribers

Aleyna Rentz

• The Land of Uz Free for non-subscribers

Amy Stuber

• Doctor Visit

Andreas Trolf

• For Sure It’s a Jacked-Up World

Poetry

Emily Bludworth de Barrios

• In my childhood Free for non-subscribers

Charlie M. Brown

• In the Tulsa you’ve forgotten
• An Attempt to Unearth

Janine Certo

• My Mother Tells Me She May Have Been the Product of Rape

Victoria Chang

• The Plaster
• The Arrival Free for non-subscribers
• For a Coming Extinction Free for non-subscribers
• To Impatience

Cortney Lamar Charleston

• It’s Important I Remember That Darkness and Blackness Aren’t Perfect Synonyms— Free for non-subscribers
• It’s Important I Remember That Enslaved People Married Here—

Adam Clay

• A Perfect Line That Circles

Satya Dash

• The Last Lyric

Kasey Jueds

• In Spite of Falling, In Spite of Apart

Andrea Jurjević

• Black Daisies

John Kinsella

• Not a God Only Ant Ode Free for non-subscribers

Peter LaBerge

• Monarch Free for non-subscribers
• False Indigo

Yuxi Lin

• The Baby

Kyle Carrero Lopez

• Rescuing Abuelo (1967)

Alison Powell

• The Mother Imagined as a Summer Home

Danni Quintos

• Unpretty

Natalie Rose Richardson

• Rabbit’s foot

Amy Sailer

• Duke Medical Center, 1999

Maureen Seaton

• Give Me a Head with Hair: A Meditation
• Postcard from Old Hollywood Beach

Grace Q. Song

• Parasite

Sophia Terazawa

• Amulets of O
• O-Graft Free for non-subscribers

Ginny Threefoot

• falling bodies

Milla van der Have

• full disclosure / an inappropriate questionnaire * Free for non-subscribers

Craig van Rooyen

• Costco Hot Dog
• Self-Portrait as Dung Beetle

Kathleen Winter

• A Question

Literary Nonfiction

Ryan Habermeyer

• The Fifth Arch

B. J. Hollars

• Goodbye to Grain Country

Kent Kosack

• Cells

Philip Metres

• The Prodigal Sons of Russia

Kathryn Nuernberger

• Things That Repeat Themselves Free for non-subscribers
• Thinking Is a Kind of Feeling That Humans Sometimes Have Free for non-subscribers
• Sometimes I Forget We’re Living in Outer Space and Have Been This Whole Time Free for non-subscribers

Xu Xi 許素細

• When Your City Vanishes Free for non-subscribers

Artwork

Marcus Jackson

• BLM in Black and White Free for non-subscribers