ISSUE 12

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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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