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HAPPY PLACE

road leading to a retro bowling alley with line drawn flowers growing from the roof, being watered by a stick figure drawing. there is a line drawn flower growing from the foreground.
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