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cover art by Janina Aza Karpinska

Issue Illustrator

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Issue Illustrator | Leslie Lindsay

Poetry

David Eileen | Proofs

Cherry Cheesman | Things I Forget to Leave in My Purse

Darren C. Demaree | Emily as Hands and Eyes and Emily as Vanity and Commerce

Weston Leo Richey | Cloud Number 9

Anthony Frame |  ̶P̶o̶e̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶W̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶d̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶V̶i̶s̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶M̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶D̶r̶e̶a̶m̶  All My Heroes Turned Out to Be Creeps

Mrityunjay Mohan | Birds Blue Birds

Mervyn Seivwright | An Echoing Deduction

Dean Bartoli Smith| Encounters

Eliza Fixler | For better, for worse

Interviews

Len Lawson | New Names for Stars 

Rachel Nix | I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore

Album Review

The Myth of Water: Go Into Your Life​
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