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Table of Contents
Cover: The Reach – Brenna Monaghan Behel
Silent as a Fish– Megan Savage
Keepsake Box – Lynn Wiser
Dia De Los Muertos: from the Family Album, 1971– Celeste Pfister
The Empty Spaces Between the Stars – Maria Giannone
Stitches – F.C.E Ngwube
Quartz Contentment – Geoffrey Reiter
Thanksgiving, Reykjavik – Carolanna Lisonbee
Broken Pearls – Vonnie Winslow Crist
On Wanting On Needing – JJ Norris
Headcase – Scotty Milder
Note to a ghost – Mia Marion
What Kiki Kolby Paints – Ellen Graham
You Already Know How This Will End – Eleanor Lennox
The World of You – Evan H. Brisson
A Face Known – Pranav
November Lambs – Robbie Gamble
The Hermit – Annie Dunn Watson
Animals – Zina Mona
St. Xero – Logan McConnell
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