Issue #10 • August 2025
Note from the Editor: In this issue we’re asked to look closely: at rivers, at inheritance, at the catastrophe accumulating in our soil and seas and bodies.
In This Issue
The Starless River
Look: it ripples upon the water, this crumbled moon. Drowning in a shoreline pocked with decayed pilings, Against the abandoned building garland in graffiti,…
Red
i don’t own anything in redno jewels, no scarf, no lipstick, no threadmy eyes turn from bridal gleami don’t know how to respondwhen you…
The Oak Room
A neon sign blinking “BAR” hung outside but everyone called it the Oak Room. Patrons professed this started as a joke, an irony, a…
A Friend, a Face, and a Name
She is soaring through the woods, chapped goat feet noiseless over the carpet of pine needles. Doe eyes and pink cheeks, dreadfully wise, a…
The Price of Plastic
Earth is a living organism. As she orbits the sun and rotates on her axis, she wakes up with the first light, and the…