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Practicing to be Lightning - Betsy James

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Black Dog - Erica Kent

Black Dog - Erica Kent

No Heroic Measures - Jessica Danger

No Heroic Measures - Jessica Danger

The Wedding - Vandana Nair

The Wedding - Vandana Nair

The Reckon Yard - Jerry Wayne Longmire

The Reckon Yard - Jerry Wayne Longmire

The Last Supper - Wendy J. Fox

The Last Supper - Wendy J. Fox

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I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat - Christopher Gonzalez

I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat - Christopher Gonzalez

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Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

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From the #SFWPQuarterly

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Wendy Kennar

My New Career

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Wendy Kennar

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Wendy Kennar

Your little monk

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincenzo Anastasia

Your little monk

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincenzo Anastasia

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincenzo Anastasia

The Story of the Othermother

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

The Story of the Othermother

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Lindsey Danis

Ancestor Work

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Lindsey Danis

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Lindsey Danis

A Summer Birthday in Early Middle Age

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincent Antonio Rendoni

A Summer Birthday in Early Middle Age

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincent Antonio Rendoni

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Vincent Antonio Rendoni

What Are We To Time Anyway?

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Michael Gallowglas

What Are We To Time Anyway?

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Michael Gallowglas

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Michael Gallowglas

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Akilah Brown

Ordinary Daze

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Akilah Brown

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Akilah Brown

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Babatunde Adesokan

Rebirth

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Babatunde Adesokan

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Babatunde Adesokan

Aboard Althea: The Baby-Making Boat

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Malena Ida

Aboard Althea: The Baby-Making Boat

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Malena Ida

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Malena Ida

NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Benjamin Green

NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Benjamin Green

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Benjamin Green

I Never Want to Leave These People, This Place

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Laura Sturza

I Never Want to Leave These People, This Place

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Laura Sturza

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Laura Sturza

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Miranda Keith

White Shoes

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Miranda Keith

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Miranda Keith

In Living Memory

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Isabel Gallegos

In Living Memory

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Isabel Gallegos

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Isabel Gallegos

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Gregory Smith

The Pond

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Gregory Smith

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Gregory Smith

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Valerie Baeza

AHA Moments

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Valerie Baeza

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Valerie Baeza

Unknown Destination

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Seniye Groff

Unknown Destination

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Seniye Groff

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Seniye Groff

all my rage remix

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

all my rage remix

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

avian studies

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Mae Fraser

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Nick Young

Watercolor

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Nick Young

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Nick Young

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Gloria Heffernan

Good Soil

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Gloria Heffernan

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Gloria Heffernan

I Feel Guilty When King Robert Dies

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Adriana DeNoble

I Feel Guilty When King Robert Dies

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Adriana DeNoble

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Adriana DeNoble

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Elizabeth Florez

Small Graces

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Elizabeth Florez

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Elizabeth Florez

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Lucian Mattison

Honey Tasting

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Lucian Mattison

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Lucian Mattison

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Jen Knox

Disembodied

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Jen Knox

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Jen Knox

Ash We Won’t Remember

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

Ash We Won’t Remember

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

A Monument I Never Asked to Live Beside

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

A Monument I Never Asked to Live Beside

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Rebecca Dietrich

Nostalgia Was My Dog

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Brooke Randel

Nostalgia Was My Dog

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Brooke Randel

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Fiction, Brooke Randel

con * stant (n)

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

con * stant (n)

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

Autumn Waltz

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Poetry, Larina Warnock

A Perfect Start

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Martha Grace Duncan

A Perfect Start

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Martha Grace Duncan

Issue 32 / Spring 2025, Creative Nonfiction, Martha Grace Duncan

Featured

I don’t know pleasure until she convinces me to skip French class

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

I don’t know pleasure until she convinces me to skip French class

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

lipservice

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Garden

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

Alcohol Woman

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

When you check in to let me know you’re thinking of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

When you check in to let me know you’re thinking of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Variations on a Wooden Spoon

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Variations on a Wooden Spoon

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

A Nightmare Called Tonight

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

A Nightmare Called Tonight

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

menses sings of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

menses sings of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

the most powerful aphrodisiac

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

the most powerful aphrodisiac

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

Seagulls would leave it spotless

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

Seagulls would leave it spotless

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

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