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Prof. John Wolff, Senior Editor Ndio Mitchell, Student Editor Lorynn Hackert, Adjutant Editor

Eleanor | Lorynn Hackert

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Eleanor was happy to be home. Her small (although she prefers the word comfortable) apartment served as a silent sanctuary in a world that seemed all too loud most days Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsLorynn Hackert

Four Haiku | Rachel Shoebridge

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

The icecaps melted— In the frozen lake ahead. Summer, is coming. Stars in the night sky, fireworks on the fourth of July— The future is bright. Leaves fall around me, Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsRachel Shoebridge

Apollo, Icarus, and I | Jessica Smith

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

The Fallen Child As He bore the sight of a golden chariot crossing above Poseidon, The prophetic God felt hellfire sear His back. Fear and glee swelled in His chest, Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsJessica Smith

Confined | Grace Taranko

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

There wasn’t another house, shop, farm, or any indication of civilization for miles. Oliver knew this from the sleepless nights he’d spent up in the library. He didn’t dare ask Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsGrace Taranko

A Love Letter to The Unknowing Watchers | Lorynn Hackert

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

When I close my eyes I see yours, and his, and his, too, staring back at me. The love(s) of my life. You are always watching me, and you don’t Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsLorynn Hackert

Grace | Debra Bialik

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

In the middle of the meadow, a weeping willow, quiet, still— until a gentle breeze blew. A meadow filled with wildflowers of many colors waiting for someone to pick— shared Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsDebra Bialik

Goddess | Stephanie Wagner

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

The women gather to take up space heaving their weighty bodies into tippy metal lawn chairs They laugh so large you can see the backs of their throats and cry Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsStephanie Wagner

A Year in Haikus | Lorynn Hackert

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Spring The soft lamp light on the cold glass window lit the rain on the other side. Summer The morning rain was hot beneath my calloused feet— the sun’s rays Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsLorynn Hackert

Under a New Moon in August | Stephanie Wagner

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

We sat in unsteady chairs, mosquitos whirring in our ears, the fire belching sparks into the black You stretched towards me with softened hands I stilled You slipped on my Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsStephanie Wagner

Saving Grace | Stephanie Wagner

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

Three years ago, they spent a weekend away, just the two of them. They drank mimosas in bed, soaking in a giant tub big enough for two and making love Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsStephanie Wagner

The Dark Matter Gallery

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 19, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

Click any image to enjoy it full-size.  Also, please see the Contributors page for bios on the photographers.  

Categories2021 Issue, Image GalleryTagsDylan Ide, John Wolff, Jordan Wolff, Katelyn Gramza, Megan Gydesen

Hold Me | Kennedi Hansen

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Your words hold me But your breath forgot to Catch me. How can I love? When the only way I know how to Is in the way you left me? Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsKenndi Hansen

Curse | Lorynn Hackert

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

You left me this way. A body blown apart by fast moving metal. Fur, feathers, feces, flattened between the cracks of the hot August pavement. What is left of the Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsLorynn Hackert

The Ides of March | Ndio Mitchell

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Bedlam trembles in the theatre. Red mist rises numinous in the morning light. Rising up past Pompey, encased in stone, watching, imperious. Up, past spiteful Brutus, unsteady as he is Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsNdio Mitchell

Nothing is as Good as Skinny Feels | Lorynn Hackert

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Our bones will lie beneath gravestones that read Died At Her Goal Weight. We will smile as the cold Earth hugs us, for we are finally in the body that Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsLorynn Hackert

Contact | Emily Robinson

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

There she stood. Rigid and shivering in the cold, coat collar upturned against the howling wind. Her mane of raven hair was flying around her porcelain face, which was turned Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsEmily Robinson

Anew | Darby Johnsen

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Seed after seed after seed after stalk Growth of weeds and trepidation of block. Lingering ennui, if not now, when? The ambivalence of beginning over again.   ~Darby Johnsen  

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsDarby Johnsen

A Trip To Annie’s | Amanda Babcock

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

I’d only come to the store for some groceries on my way home from the bank and didn’t plan to linger. I didn’t dress for it, either, in baggy jeans Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsAmanda Babcock

Yellow Tulips | Tandy Sturgeon

Posted onApril 19, 2021June 6, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

After the sixth grade graduation, her father would have to go back to Los Angeles. The thirteen-year-old girl, when she eventually grew up to become a woman, never remembered wearing Read More …

Categories2021 Issue, FictionTagsTandy Sturgeon

Stephanie | Emily Dykman

Posted onApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Miles of sage green grass, pursued by a gentle river, lead to beautiful meadows.   ~Emily Dykman  

Categories2021 Issue, PoetryTagsEmily Dykman

excerpt from The Sands of Time | Caleb Duran

Posted onApril 20, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

[In this excerpt from Caleb Duran’s short story “And Thus the Sands of Time Blow,” the village hunters and the main character, Petros, prepare to hunt the Great Beasts, their Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

It Creeps Up | T’Lia Bowden

Posted onApril 19, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

Should give it fifteen but I’ll only give ten. Late again. It’s a wonder you still call me friend. And I’m so sorry, bro—Oh, the shit you put up with Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

December 28th | Jaina Nehm

Posted onApril 19, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Consider me a motel, convenient and on your way. Easy and inviting. A blooming neon sign, soft cursive above the highway. Leave your sheets undone and the TV on, no Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

July 16th | Jaina Nehm

Posted onApril 19, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

private property signs littered beaches yachts bobbed beside reserved shores   curious toes tipped an invisible fence a barrier loathed with no hope to repent   my exhaust hiccuped and Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

Rose-Colored Glass | Jaina Nehm

Posted onApril 19, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

rose-colored glass framed in the walls of a chapel panes slicked with rain sunlight falters just outside I still sing in your choir hoarse in the shadow of your pulpit Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

Looking for the Convergence of Recursively Defined Sequences | Seán Henne

Posted onApril 19, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

For Joshua Walker   1   An empty room— A chair, metal and cold A single light bulb, also cold. In the street, a torn scrap of newsprint flutters, gutters Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

Lost Innocence | Sabrina Grant

Posted onApril 18, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

The day was dark, even though the sun shone, it was dark. The air felt heavy, every breath a forceful event. I closed my eyes, hoping it would fade, that Read More …

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T and Z | Seán Henne

Posted onApril 18, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

  For Dan Connolly, Geoff Kramer, and John Wolff   The giant, hand-painted, fiercely weather-beaten sign has read BLA for twenty years now.  Ever since Riley Zwiecki’s truck leapt out Read More …

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Dream Come True | Jeslyn Saenz

Posted onApril 18, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to truly experience your dreams? What about your darkest nightmares? What if you could close your eyes and be sent into Read More …

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Déjà vu By the Salley Gardens | Seán Henne

Posted onApril 16, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

And he was only nineteen with Ireland just becoming real to him, sitting in the Brazen Head, Dublin’s oldest pub, listening to “Fisherman’s Blues” from the live band and shyly Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

Open Spaces | Natalie Ruth Joynton

Posted onApril 15, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

  Where does a person end and begin? ~Lawrence Kushner   i.e., when we take a single breath, we take in a single molecule from Caesar’s last exhalation. ~Enrico Fermi Read More …

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11/23/19 | Davina Teal

Posted onApril 15, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

My friend and I are driving in my beat up,  soccer mom, minivan  searching for abandoned buildings to look at  when I ask her if she wants to see where I grew up.  Her Read More …

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Vulnerability | Marina Falkowski

Posted onApril 15, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Shaking beneath A thin layer of varicose veins And stretched out skin Lies A sobering solace A terrifying shift —I never wanted this   —Marina Falkowski  

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Among the Ferns and Thickets | Caleb Duran

Posted onApril 14, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

There was no time for sightseeing or exploring today. Orange is not the predominant color one might expect to see in the forests of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The green seas Read More …

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Waterlogged | Davina Teal

Posted onApril 14, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

1. “These hallways are riot proof” my friend tells me as I run the tips of my chewed down fingers over cinder blocks smoothed by pale yellow paint. “It was Read More …

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Lust to Dust | by T’Lia Bowden

Posted onApril 14, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

What are motes?   We wonder aloud, not quite caring.   They float in the air of this hot buttered car Get caught in your hair And we breathe them, Read More …

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Moving | N. Eden Ünlüata-Foley

Posted onApril 3, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Editor’s note: The author of “Moving” has this to say about his work: [Moving is an interactive poem which is built on gaming ideas. The poem invites audiences to participate Read More …

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Adrift | T’Lia Bowden

Posted onApril 2, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe Editors2 Comments

It was a long way to shore. She was drifting. A minute ago, she’d been standing—feet sinking too deep into the soft bottom of the little pond. She’d been squealing Read More …

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Sudden and Infinite | T’lia Bowden

Posted onApril 2, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

The crash is both sudden and infinite. Safe-coated glass from my windshield floats serene around me—that frozen cracked-ice breaking noise stretched impossibly both long and wide—glass suspended, held glittering up Read More …

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Body in the Begonias | T’Lia Bowden

Posted onApril 2, 2020April 13, 2021AuthorThe Editors1 Comment

It was my cat what first saw it—what first saw him, that is. My little cat, strolling right up to the corpse and licking at its unseeing eyeball—his eyeball, for Read More …

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To Muse A Colossus | Ndio Mitchell

Posted onMarch 29, 2020April 18, 2021AuthorThe EditorsLeave a comment

Kingsley called them the Oldguns. The Delvers guided a crate of them onto the hook, swinging about as upon a countenance of its own. Repstein, manning the claw above, lowered Read More …

Categories2020 Issue

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