Issue 30 | Spring 2022
Editors' Choice Winners
Nonfiction: Tonight Was Not the Cure by M. Nicole Burton
Fiction: The Neighbor's House was Destroyed, Too by Lyndsey Kay
Poetry: How to Read Road Signs by Max Barnaby
Visual Art: Tortoise Ink by Ethan Hoenig
Nonfiction
A Letter Written in Iron | Tayah Nelson
Coffee Rings and People Things | Bridget Arias Cunningham
"Essais," or Attempts | Lyndsey Kay
Existence Proof | Louis M.
"Growed-Up" | Scum Hellebore
Like a Girl | Callie King-Stevens
Look Well Soon | Lauryn Batista
Side Effects | Taylor Huxley
The Last Assignment of the Semester (Hopefully) | Scum Hellebore
Tonight Was Not the Cure | M. Nicole Burton
Fiction
Bird's Nest | Taylor Huxley
Death's Love | Alyssa Monson
Drawing Rooms and Daydreams | Lindsey Hale
Fading | S. M. Beal
Fifty Shades of Green | Matthew Kando
Isolated for Fixing | Scum Hellebore
Lullabies | Lyndsey Hale
Made in the Image of Man | Rebecca Fielding
Power-Out | A. Elaine
Retired Bones | Scum Hellebore
Speak of the Devil | Faith Anderson
The Mirror | Lindsey Hale
The Neighbor's House was Destroyed, Too | Lyndsey Kay
Poetry
African Spirit, Livin' in it | Geneva Williams
an ode to the song of achilles | Elizabeth Curtis
August 3, Chicago | M. Nicole Burton
Bees Love Salad | Austin Engar
bigger | Natalie Franson
Blueberry Preserves
By the Lake | Famke Halma
Cherry Blossoms Will Fall | Katie Lloyd
Circle White | Mary Hall
Collapsing Calypso | Tayah Nelson
Death Valley | H Hanneman
Deceiving Dusk | Tara Dole
Echo | Madeleine Walters
Eu Sinto Sua Falta/I Feel Your Absence | Callie King-Stevens
Far-Flung Fancies | Amanda M. Clarke
Ferrokinesis | Key Wilson
ghost be gone | Elizabeth Curtis
Grandpa's Hats | Callie King-Stevens
Hell is a Place | Famke Halma
His First Dead Body | Janzen Jorgensen
How to Read Road Signs | Max Barnaby
I cleaned my room today | Max Barnaby
If Found, Please Return | M. Nicole Burton
If Only Leaves Were Orange | Shauri Thacker
Kaleidoscope | Brandon Maag
Matchstick | Famke Halma
Mr. Wind | Katie Lloyd
My List | M. Nicole Burton
Of All I've Written | A. Elaine
On a Feather Quilt Pillow My Grandmother Made Or A Short Treatise On Myth and Evolution | David Lee
On ADHD | Eliza Reeve
On the Issue of an Unfixed Tire | Max Barnaby
Psyche | Madeleine Walters
Stretch Marks | Taylor Huxley
Sunday Best | Taylor Huxley
Surname | Larissa Beatty
The Smell of Weed | Taylor Huxley
They | Rian Kasner
Time | Natalie Franson
Unbecoming Love | Hanna Lu Muzquiz
Wild Honey | Hailey Artinger
Words Like Wine, Wine Like Blood | Key Wilson
