Volume 32: 2021-2022

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PROSE

Great Grandma’s Strawberry Jam

Leigha Whitridge

"We fly by beds of peonies as we take trips unloading gallons of strawberries..."

Drowning

Jessica Day

"You are worried about choosing the wrong person to take you to the pool for the first time...."

Esther

Emilee Boster

"I pointed past the bent-over ventriloquist dummies, smiling baby dolls, odd-shaped boxes, and faded trinkets..."

Ethnic Twister

Bianca McCarty

"Everything I am is scavenged, pieced together as if my very being was a rushed quilt...."

Teddy Bear

Attalea Rose

"Stuffing no longer fell out of the jagged slit in its side; maggots did instead...."

To Be an Ant

Leigha Whitridge

"Lacey’s father once told her ants can carry ten times their weight..."

Those Who’ve Loved

Caroline Clifton

"My heart didn't flutter like his...."

Van Gogh Ate Yellow Paint

Gracelyn Eve Mitchell

"Desperation and mental illness have turned into toxicity. Others will try to paint this cry for help as poetic, but I refuse..."

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Economy

Isaiah Bolin

"We all sought the same thing, the same substance that would satiate that carnal desire for snacks with a swift kick to the jaw bundled alongside it..."

Stretch Marks

Leigha Whitridge

"She knows she is sturdier now...."