June 2026 ||| CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Resilience, by Alison Stedman

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POETRY

Borodino, by Charisse Gendron

My Ideal Reader, by Joseph Geskey

Dear Isabella, by Robert Fillman

Soft Release from Dementia, by Emma-Jane Peterson

Cicada Song, by Meggan C. Peak

A Good Day to Die, by Andy Roberts

Dark Room, by Michael T. Smith

Ode to Ovum, by Shannon Guglielmo

Nesting Dolls, by Alyssa Joy

Odesa, by M. Benjamin Thorne

San Pedro, Belize, by Karen DeGroot Carter

Gjakova, 26 Years After the War, by Hillary Smith-Maddern

Of course, no tree is fireproof, by Adrienne Egolf

Love Poem to the Tree, by Allison Borzoni

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FICTION

Clay for the Pigeons, by M. Anne Avera

The Piping Tree, by Leah Bartleson

Darling Pink, by Jacqueline Cope

Elbows from Venus, by Ron Dionne

Night Feeds, by Lizzie Thompson

Auntie Z’s Ruby Reds and Pawpaws, by K. M. Watson

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NONFICTION

His Bed, by Alex Poppe

The Bon Secours, by Sarah O’Connor

Green Dragon, by Annalisa Sheldahl

If I Stop Being Me, by Elizabeth Bird

Buster, by Soren Trimble

My Underground, Undergraduate Adventure, by Marguerite Schneider

The Ditchpigs’ Christmas Eve, by Michael Ippen

Slicing Through the Desert, by Ron Wetherington

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