ISSUE 11

February, 2026

Editor’s Note

POETRY

Emily Knight
Polychaete

Jason Fraley
Paper Trail XXXXII

Jessica Dubey
Lifeguard

Clara Howell
Trace

T. R. Poulson
Juliet as the Unpopular Girl

Kate Vanhinsbergh
Light Years at Last

Bailey Lambeth
Ketchikan

Adrian Sanders Russo
Before Customers I Fall Asleep at My Desk

Kristin LaFollette
Birds of America

Paul Hostovsky
Beautiful Catastrophes

Kiki Johnson
A TREE MADE FOR HIDDENNESS

PROSE

Leo Coffey
Where It Hurts

C. Landau
I Went to Elsie Miller’s 6th Annual Hometown New Year’s Eve Party and All I Got Was Trypophobia

Joe Nasta
On Friendship

Christopher Robertson
Dreamwear

Eirene Gentle
Drift past the point of explosion

Stacey Megally
A Tooth Is Still a Tooth

VISUAL ART

Michael C. Roberts
Passing Glimpse II

Sheree Shatsky
A_CTION

Thomas Riesner
Other Planet