Fall 2025: Volume 72, Number 2

FICTION

At Stabroek Market by Renesha Dhanraj
The Rider by Remy Barnes
Incisions by Kristof Anetta
A Suitable Arrangement by Murzban F. Shroff
Wild Silence by Justin Taylor
Untouchables by Pegah Ouji
The Long Slide by Bee Sacks
The Living and the Left Behind by Greg Ames
The Prince of Aspen by Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi
Bad Dreams by Emma Cairns Watson

ESSAYS

Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage by Greg Sendi
The Truth and Alison Lurie by Micah Perks

COMIC

Energy Emergency by Ariel Courage

POETRY

Danger Music by Aldo Amparán
Two Levels of Spiritual Attainment by Brandon Shimoda
Tradition by Weijia Pan
Soldier’s Joy and An Unmade Bed by Ed Skoog
MRI of the Brain and Orbits by Betsy Mitchell Martinez
Water of Unknown Depths and It’s Free to Come Here. You Pay to Leave.
by Christopher Kennedy
Epistle to Skeletons by Bryan D. Price
The Raisin Meditation by Danny Cassidy
Ghost Story, Consider the Seahorse, and Same Problem
by Elisa Gabbert
Invited for an Interview by Laine Derr
Of Use by Cary Marcous
Vespers by Erin Malone
Bad Dreams and Housekeeping by Lisa Russ Spaar
You Ask Me How It Happened by Stephen Thomas Roberts
Amazing Sea Creatures by Michael Martin
Come to the Feast of Love and Sword in Golden Sand
by Korey Williams
Ghost Town by Brittany Atkinson
The Bedmate Spurned Psalm by Lily Jarman-Reisch
The First Time I Saw a Northern Cardinal and
In Praise of the Oak Outside My Classroom
by Taylor Franson-Thiel
Secular Prayer at the End of Daylight Saving Time by FM Stringer

COVER

Transit, 2023, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, 8.25" x 11.75", by David Pjecha