Vol. 53 No. 1 (2024): Spring

From the Editors

Letter from the Editors

Bailey Evans, Eli Witham

3
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Art

Opossum Lake

Cara David

9
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Dripping Flowers

MyKenzi Wells

16
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The Mystery

Jordan Winslow

28
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Fool for Love

Elise Dobson

43
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Intimates (best of, cover)

Abby Franke

46
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The Silent Beast (1)

Lexia Holmes

57
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Cat in a Tree

Cara David

60
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The Silent Beast (2)

Lexia Holmes

76
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Unbridled Rage

Abby Franke

92
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The Silent Beast (3)

Lexia Holmes

97
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The Eyes

Raeya Wilhelm

100
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Nostalgia Is a Sweet and Suffocating Aroma

Clayton Keehn

104
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Twisted

Kira Taylor

111
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HDYKAM?

Clayton Keehn

122
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New York Blue Botanical Garden #1

Yuko Kyutoku

137
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This Is Home

Corrin Larson

142
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Fortune of a Hypochondriac

Kira Taylor

153
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Rainy Day

Abby Franke

157
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Creative Non-fiction

The Fan

Emily Hostettler

17
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Hoarder of Memories

Ayva Edwards

52-56
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Accentity (Accent Identity)

Daniel Awosika

78-79
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Not Your Kind of Faggot (best of)

Tegan Blackburn

108-110
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How to be a Mexican American in Indiana

Xavier Neier

120-121
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Being Black

Tyler Butler

131-136
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If...then

Kim Kile

140
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Rebuilding Home

Alicia Rump

143-150
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Fiction

Miles Per Minute

Ruthie Barakat

11-14
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Homecoming

Kate Weber

20-24
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Lady in Thread

Ava Russell

31-41
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Dear Lance

Maggie Hoppel

47-50
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Identity

Nya A. Gaines

65-73
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How Still We See

Kim Kile

81-91
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How to Sell Your Body (and Survive It) (best of)

Eliza Surdzial

95-96
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How to Dragon, for any curious fire-breathing, winged serpents out there

Christian Sickmeier

101-102
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Spring

Haley Merida

115-119
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Before We Forget

Kayla McVeigh

123-128
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Poetry

Do you still go down to Cicero Creek?

Maggie Hoppel

8
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Cicadas

Anna Turgeon

10
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The Dahlia That Withered Away

Tomislav Kraljic

15
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Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017

Eliza Surdzial

18-19
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pondering a black girl’s* suicide

Saloni Dixon

25
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Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic

Elizabeth Terhorst

26-27
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Inspiró

Mario Stone

29
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Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen

Ashley Wilson

30
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vibrator? hardly know her.

Ruthie Barakat

42
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butterflies

Selma Adie

44
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DJ Khalid could never

Ruthie Barakat

45
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Milk-White Bones

Eliza Surdzial

51
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Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill

Kayla McVeigh

58
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My Father Grew Wings

Trent Platt

59
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Lavender

Christopher Cassetty

61
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The Lynching

Saloni Dixon

62
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Two Boars (best of)

Kayla McVeigh

63-64
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I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls

Selma Adie

74
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Fragmentation

Christopher Cassetty

75
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Shackles to Spectacles

Zion O. Adedipe

77
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Incantation for the end of pain

Ashley Wilson

80
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The Righteous

Ashley Wilson

93
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The Worship of Woman

Elise Dobson

94
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Refurbished Doll

Raeya Wilhelm

98
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Grey Hair

Kayla McVeigh

99
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a zombie

Clayton Hunsader

103
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Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance

Christopher Cassetty

105
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Your Dying

Kim Kile

106
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Apology for a Dissociative State of Mind

Eliza Surdzial

107
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Send to Postal Code: 184209

Alexandra Kluger

112-113
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Fair Winds and Following Seas

Kayla McVeigh

114
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No Dinner

Saloni Dixon

129
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Identity Crisis

Alexandra Kluger

130
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The Cradle

Selma Adie

138
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to have and to hold

Bee Fee

139
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The Process of Healing

Sarah Seigel

141
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How to Open a Can of Nothing.

Clayton Hunsader

151
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Sign Crushes Motorist

Jared Miller

152
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Oración

Mario Stone

154
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Gives life

Kayla McVeigh

155
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Kiln Kind of Love

Alexandra Kluger

156
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back when the world was within walking distance,

Ruthie Barakat

158
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Full Issue

From the Editors

Art

Creative Non-fiction

Fiction

Poetry