December 2025 ||| CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S NOTE

All We Need to Know, by Ellen Herbert

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POETRY

Lament for the Unnameable, by Svetlana Litvinchuk

Imagining My Friend’s Widow, by Karen Paul Holmes

Whisper of Silk, by David Anson Lee

Trying to Remember What I Never Knew about My Birth Mother, by Colette Tennant

Plein Air, by Elanur Williams

Undersight, by Alison Hurwitz

This One Life, by Keli Osborn

The Paring of the Apple: A Theorem, by Lynn D. Gilbert

Sisters and the Frost, by Ann Weil

Wild Horses, by Melanie McCabe

Don’t ask me, by Merie Kirby

Balanced on Thin Branches, by Elizabeth Birch

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FICTION

Kenzan Heart, by Anil Classen

The Five Songs My Father Knew, by Patrick G. Roland

We Drown the Night, by Reneé Bibby and Lilian D. Vercauteren

Known For Setting the World on Fire, by Madeleine Lumley Prince

Something Other Than The Truth, by Foster Trecost

Too Silent a Morning, by David Harris

We All Look the Same in the Dark, by Laurence Williams

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NONFICTION

Bump, by Alina Zollfrank

Anila, Dharamsala, India, by Marcy Rae Henry

On the Spooky Road, by Marcia Yudkin

My Father’s Car, by Peter Lewis Allen

B-A-B-Y, by Cooper Green

The Last Reunion, by Elliot Wilner

Coincidences, by Blanche Sunrise

Immortality, Extended 10-15 Years, by William Watson

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