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CONTENTS 
 
POETRY 
Bret Yamanaka: 「Obake Obachan」
Ashley Somwaru: "Pick What Story You Would Like Me to Become"
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett: "At Love’s Truck Stop, Laramie, WY"
Aza Pace: "Welcome to the Solar System, Welcome to the Woods"
Chloe Martinez: "Spine" and "The Cupid Revealed in the Restoration of Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Talks Back"
Ana Portnoy Brimmer: "Sex Sonnet I" and "Mercurial"
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Here’s a Love Poem Sleeping"
Shelly Stewart Cato: "Alligator Alley" 
Karisma Price: "I’m Always so Serious" and "And"
Stella Wong: "[who are you]" and "[i am collecting]"
Blaine Prescott: "Initial Sightings West of Modern Appalachia"
Caitlin Roach: "In Oakland Cemetery" and "A Wedding"
Emma Aylor: "High Plain"
JSA Lowe: "Dear Ventilator" 
 
FICTION 
Carmen Petaccio: "VR" 
A. J. Jacono: "When We Remembered Zion"
Allison A. deFreese: "The Night with James Dean"
Phoebe Oathout: "Chainmail Bikini"
Alex Pickett: "Petland"
 
NONFICTION 
Storey Clayton: "Glass Houses"
Jessica E. Johnson: "The Ghost Road"
Laura Joyce-Hubbard: "A Zuihitsu: Harvesting Black Walnuts"
 
ART 
Marynka Dovhanych: "Burning Rage," "On 'Stay Safe,'" "Intense Worry," "Put Spring on Hold," "Air Raid Siren," "Siege of Mariupol," "Russia Set Ukraine on Fire," and "Dog Food" 
Lauren Rice: "Moonshapes," "Time Is a Sunset," "Bad Moon Rising (XO)," "The Maze," "Head on the Ground, Feet in the Clouds" "The Wrong Green," "Unearthed," and "Poor Pythagoras"