EXCLUSION
November 15, 2024
Original Photograph by Katie Hughbanks
NO TRESPASSING
Editor’s Note
FROM CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF KRISTIN HOULIHAN & MELISSA ROTERT
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
JADEN 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 AMIRANTED PIDAL | 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
ARTI JAIN | OF SONGS, THRESHOLDS, AND SLIPPERS