NOSTALGIA
September 8, 2025
Original artwork by Anna Wiksten
AT THE ROAD’S END
Editor’s Note
FROM CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF KRISTIN HOULIHAN & MELISSA ROTERT
Fiction
BARBARA REESE YAGER | EVERYDAY
HALEY DIRENZO | THE GIFT OF A NEW LANGUAGE
GARY FINNEGAN | DRESS-UP NIGHT
SUNNY CARLSTROM | HILLS
CHRIS COTTOM | BAND OF GOLD
LORI CRAMER | SWEET GIRL
UTE ORGASSA | A DAY AT THE BEACH
BETHANY CUTKOMP | HAUNTER OF THE SHORE
JENNIFER SPURGEON | LINGERING
LISA THORNTON | THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
Poetry
YODA OLINYK | BRIGHT YELLOW SAD
ANASTASIA BORTSVADZE | POMEGRANATE SEEDS
RABAB AHMED | WHAT REMAINS
RACHEL WOODGATE | MOTHER’S SHADOW
MEGAN MUNGER | WISHING WELL
AMY DEVINE | I WAS LOVED HERE ONCE
LILY VAUGHAN | THE SENSES I RECALL
PEGGY HEITMANN | I HAVE A QUESTION: ARE YOU RELATED TO JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER BATES
AMANDA TROUT | EULOGY FOR LINDEN QUARTZ WALLCLOCK
KAREN BAUMGART | HANGING STARS
GRETCHEN FILART | 24 TABS OPEN (SIDEQUESTING ON A FORMER LOVE & EX FRIENDS’ SOCIALS)
Creative Nonfiction
DIANE CYPKIN | READING PAPA’S SHOLEM ALEICHEM
RYAN T. POZZI | FOSSIL RECORD
RYAN T. POZZI | YOU ARE HERE
KAREN BAUMGART | REAL LIKE A SUNG PRAYER