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November 15, 2024

EXCLUSION

A deer's profile appears just behind a No Trespassing sign in a field.

Original Photograph by Katie Hughbanks

NO TRESPASSING

Editor’s Note

Fiction

CHELSEA ALLEN | SMOKE TRAILS

LUIS LÓPEZ GALÁN | DIGNITY

SOFÍA MARTÍNEZ ÁLVAREZ | STUFF

SUMITRA SINGAM | THE SCHIZOPHRENOGENIC MOTHER

DELPHINE GAUTHIER-GEORGAKOPOULOS | CADAVRE EXQUIS

DAVE KUNZ | THE UNTANGLING

DAN BERICK | LIGHTS AND COMPANIONS

SUDHA SUBRAMANIAN | MY HEART WILL GO ON

CHRIS COTTOM | THE KAJA CASE

HALEY DIRENZO | UPENDING THE GARDEN

Poetry

JOEL GLOVER | THINGS I WILL NEVER TELL HIM

LOUIS FABER | EASTER

JANINA AZA KARPINSKA | IGNOTEM PER IGNOTIOUS

KATHRYN REESE | MORDACIA PRAECOX THE AUSTRALIAN BROOK LAMPREY

DEE ALLEN. | INVISIBILITY

TIM MURPHY | FOR THESE BRIEF MOMENTS

SAMEEN SHAKYA | VAGABOND

ALLISON ZACZYNSKI | ISOLATION

ALLISON WALL | BEFORE YOU BURN ME AT THE STAKE

ODIN MEADOWS | CELLOPHANE BOY

KENDRA WHITFIELD | ONCE

KIRA COLEMAN | I’LL MISS YOU AUNT KATHRYN

LISA DELAN | PERIPHERY (OUTSIDE/LOOKING IN)

TODD MATSON | ESTRANGEMENT

MARISCA PICHETTE | ASKING

MELISSA FLORES ANDERSON | I AM TOO MUCH

TRACIE RENEE | HALLOWEEN MASKS

JAE CASELLA | MONDAY NIGHT CHOIR BOI

THE APRILCENTAUR | OPEN EYES

Creative Nonfiction

MAC CAREY | LIVING’S MATERIAL

MAC CAREY | LAST LIGHT

JUDITH BETH COHEN | MOTHER TO MY MOTHER

SUMITRA SINGAM | FIBROMYALGIA IS A DIAGNOSIS OF EXCLUSION

GRETCHEN FILART | GARDENING DURING A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE

MEGAN HANLON | “FREE DRAWINGS”

CHRIS WARDLE | ONE KINDLY QUESTION

JOY E. KRINSKY | SHIVITI: KEEPING IN FRONT OF ME ALWAYS

MARY KAY FEATHER | A POLKA DOT BAG

 

PHOTO ESSAY

ARTI JAIN | OF SONGS, THRESHOLDS, AND SLIPPERS