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Table of Contents
Cover: The Unwritable Entry – Walter H. Von Egidy
The Mirror Stage – Dana Wall
All the Pretty Reindeer – Stetson Ray
Fault/Forgiveness – Sarah Cannavo
Late-Night Calls – Amanda Bintz
Change in the House of Flies – Kai R. Hastur
What Hansel and Gretel Never Told You – Kristina Hals
Our Special Games – J.J. House
Origami – Yong Takahashi
I No Longer Work for Frito-Lay – Preston Lang
Lucy’s Treacherous Silence – Marcelo Medone
H.G. Wells on New Year’s Eve – Attar Topobroto
Progress – Teresa Sanchez-Reyes
Best Meal of the Day – LM Fontanes
Interior Design – Victoria Nordlund
Kintsugi – Michael Takeda
Fragment of Glassy Black Material – Sarah Jackson
Fool’s Gold – Keira Reynolds
Pinus taeda – Andrea Ferrari Kristeller
Faith – Richard Brush, Sr.
Talisman – Temidayo Temiloluwa
It’s Electric – C.R. Langille
Editor’s Reflection — On the Loss of The Sirens Call and Orca, Kristi Petersen Schoonover
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