Happy Place
January 31, 2024
Original Art by Ashlee Craft
GROWING IN PLACES YOU NEVER IMAGINED YOU’D BLOOM
Editor’s Note
FROM CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF MELISSA ROTERT & KRISTIN HOULIHAN
Fiction
FRANCOIS BEREAUD | AN OCTOBER FAIRYTALE
TERESE ROBISON | ARIANE
CLIFF CHEN | FLASHING LIGHTS
BUSAYO AKINMOJU | IN TWO FINGERS
G. LYNN BROWN | ONCE THE RAIN COMES
MARY ANNE PECK | PRETTY PURPLE SPOTS
ZACH KEALI’I MURPHY | THE MALLARDS OF ST. CATHERINE
Poetry
CAROLE GREENFIELD | CROWS
TIM MURPHY | DESERT RACERS
MARISCA PICHETTE | I’VE ALWAYS LOVED DARKNESS BEST
BETHANY CUTKOMP | LORE EXCHANGE
SAMEEN SHAKYA | MOUNTAINS IN DARJEELING
DEVON NEAL | NEW
GRANT SHIMMIN | QUEEN OF THE BEACH
LIA PAS | RAIN . FOREST
LIA PAS | THE RIVER SPEAKS
DERYCK N. ROBERTSON | WINTER EVENINGS
Creative Nonfiction
ARTI JAIN | ACCOUTREMENTS OF HIRAETH
ANGELA TOWNSEND | FOUR THOUSAND CHILDREN
GRETCHEN FILART | I CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY SOAKED IN RAINWATER, MOTHERING A SICK CHILD
DELPHINE GAUTHIER-GEORGAKOPOULOS | I REMEMBER
TERESE ROBISON | PHILIA, AGAPE