2023

Works

Visual Art

“Untitled”

by
Alli Devolve

Visual Art

“Untitled”

by
Alli Devolve

Visual Art

“Untitled”

by
Alli Devolve

Visual Art

“The Dark Never Wins”

by
Benjamin Deverter

Visual Art

“Untitled Artwork 4”

by
Benjamin Deverter

Visual Art

“China Doll”

by
Alex Rasmussen

Visual Art

“Occult Wine Label”

by
Tanner McDaniel

Poetry
April 14, 2023

JESUS WENT OUT THE BACK WINDOW AT THE BOULDER MOTEL

by
Tate Bailey

Nails enter Christ’s palms.  Unforgiving lovers enter  virgin bodies–at the Boulder Motel,

Poetry

small town charm

by
Serena Jeffers

they were driving up the hill made of hundred year old bricks,

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Walking to the Post Office to Mail her a Bag of Hershey’s Kisses

by
Sophie Slusher

and a love letter, I pass a high school.

Poetry
April 14, 2023

I AM NOT WRITING ABOUT SEX

by
Annabel DelGiorno

I haven’t written that poem yet I’ve been putting it off because I know it’ll poke holes in my skin and then they will bleed

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Corset

by
Lilly Rogers

the corset synches too tightly around my torso but you don’t notice.

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Ripple

by
Elisabeth Moss

I heard that we bring a part of where we’re from to every place we go,

Poetry
April 14, 2023

October

by
Elisabeth Moss

The oaks have thinned since we last spoke, and I’m shedding the weight of you from my mind

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Fog

by
Chase Robbins

Since the city is stifled it appears The hour thrust beyond the gloom at. . .

Poetry
April 14, 2023

There is no other version of this story (Joyeuse)

by
Grace Usleman

We went to the museum and I watched two kids pretending to sword fight by the medieval knights exhibit.

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Hope Embodied

by
David Richardson

It was said of me, “the defendant will always pose a threat to society

Poetry
April 14, 2023

Omagh, 1998

by
Ellen Moth

Your mother is obsessed with mosaics.

Poetry
April 17, 2023

Baby Blues

by
Hope Haddad

White light, buzzing from the ceiling now finds itself humming in my head.

Creative Nonfiction
April 12, 2023

A Silent Song

by
Audrey Akins

A man sits in the audience, watching his daughter sing. He is watching her lips move in unintelligible shapes, trying and failing

Creative Nonfiction
April 12, 2023

Secret ways to say I love you/A man starts to look like a question mark

by
Elisabeth Moss

Secret ways to say I love you–

Creative Nonfiction
April 12, 2023

A Green Fog

by
Ryder Guido

When I was nine-years old my parents signed me up for a daytime golf lesson. This was mostly in a vain attempt to hold my

Creative Nonfiction
April 12, 2023

Redemption: A Rhetorical Recourse

by
W. Jason Duncan

I am a convicted felon. No single incident led me to where I am today; it was more of a series of events spanning a lifetime.

Fiction
April 12, 2023

32 Years

by
Jack Schott

Our house was on the edge of a grand forest. In my younger years, my father and I would walk along the trail that went

Fiction
April 12, 2023

Lightning Frog

by
Emma Baltz

The afternoon breeze fills in around you, replacing the emptiness of your lanky body and hollow stomach. Dinnertime, you

Fiction
April 14, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris

by
Cayla Rusielewicz

Arynessa looked up from her textbook at her phone which had no notifications and then at her best friend, Evaline.

Fiction
April 14, 2023

Silk Magnolia

by
Jack Brady

False proclamations of rain speak from a magnolia tree. It’s just the ice melting off the fibrous leaves. On my walk between the trees.

2023

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