48.2, Spring 2025

CONTENTS

7 EDITOR’S NOTE

9 AWARD WINNERS

 

FICTION

11 MICHAEL KNIGHT / Life Cycle of the Common Goldfish

34 ALYSON HAGY / Oeuvre

60 GEORGE SINGLETON / Field Glasses

79 SOPHIA SHEALY / Paradise

126 MICHAEL CZYZNIEJEWSKI / Happy Birthday, America

137 LAURA LEIGH MORRIS / They Should Have Told You

155 BROCK CLARKE / Things Are Heavy

 

POETRY

27 JESSICA Q. STARK / Antoinette / The Head of Antoinette

31 VANCE COUPERUS / Dandelion Tea

32 A. E. WYNTER / Inflatable Boys

37 BEN KLINE / Progress // Be the Change

40 LAUREN CRAWFORD / Lightweaver

42 JILL MICHELLE / Economy

44 SHELLY CATO / A Stork Drowns in Comporta / Four Corners of the Heart

53 ETHAN CHUA / Ars Poetica / Angel Island

54 LEIA K. BRADLEY / Baby Blues

58 KAI-LILLY KARPMAN / Two Sheep Died Last Night

73 CYNTHIA CHEN / I’ve Tilted My Heart Toward Small Terrors

74 JAYE KRANZ / Afterwords

76 TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT / Weather Patterns / Weather Patterns

98 KELLY GRACE THOMAS / If It Never Happens

100 CHARIS MORGAN / Through Baton Rouge and New Orleans

102 DAMEN O’BRIEN / A Warning

122 ANN PEDONE / From: “GOAT”

124 KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY / After You Leave / Still Early

128 MERLIN URAL RIVERA / Angelus Novus / Suggestions

133 DOUG RAMSPECK / A Map of My Father’s Hands

134 JENNY MAAKETO / Antepartum Zuihitsu

141 DAVID MOOLTEN / Kink

142 PETER SZILAGYI / Harvest Festival

151 OKSANA MAKSYMCHUK / Family Tree

152 CATHERINE PIERCE / Flamingo in Assateague Beach / The Wherewolf

176 GINNIE GOULET GAVRIN / This Time It Happened in Maine

 

NONFICTION

48 SARAH BETH CHILDERS / A Cow Funeral

104 SIENNA ZEILINGER / Sorry About the Raccoons

145 ROSE MCLARNEY / Without Conclusion

 

178 CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES