Current Issue
May 1, 2025
RESISTANCE
![[Orange and yellow flames are emerging from a disembodied mouth. The following words are written in the flames: White supremacists are not very fine people; Denying trans rights does not “protect women”; Trying to violently overturn an election is not patriotic; Words matter; Truth matters; The opposite of diversity equity and inclusion is white supremacy and exclusion; Hatred and lies don’t make a country great; They hate “woke” because they want you asleep; Wake up!]](https://epistemiclit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Visual-Art-Fitzpatrick-Melissa-Fitzpatrick-1-768x768.jpg)
Original artwork by Melissa Fitzpatrick
SPEAK TRUTH, SPEAK FIRE
Editor’s Note
Fiction
SAMA BELL | BETTER CHANCE
CHRIS COTTOM | TWELVE YEARS A WAGE SLAVE
LY FAULK | PIG FLU
MARK KEANE | A GREAT LITTLE TOWN
FRANÇOIS BEREAUD | SIDEWALLS
ALICE KINERK | THE END
Poetry
ANDI STOUT | ERASED
JENNIFER SPURGEON | FAITH IS DEAD
PAUL HOSTOVSKY | TO A TODDLER BAWLING IN A PRAM
DOUGLAS LANG | HOPE LEAVES
ZARY FEKETE | THE PERSIAN EDIT
ALLISON P. BROWN | REMEDY FOR FASCISM
CANDACE KRONEN | TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE
JAMES LILLIEFORS | THERE WILL BE WARNINGS
GRANT SHIMMIN | BESTER
PAUL GARDNER | SWASTIKA
CHANDRA PERSAUD | EN ROUTE
MONICA POSTMA | WAS THIS POEM AI GENERATED?
Creative Nonfiction
SUMITRA SIGNAM | MY BROTHER LECTURES ME ABOUT GAUGUIN
LANEY LENOX | TO MY DAUGHTER, THE ONE WITH THE SMALL HANDS
SARAH SELIM | MUD
TRACIE ADAMS | OUR LITTLE SECRET