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  • VOLUME 12
  • Editor’s Note
  • POETRY
    • “…or myth or…”
    • Fire Ant
    • Selkie Bride
    • Aubade To a Regrettable Dream
    • IV
    • Keen
    • Redemptress
    • Myths and Promises for Brown Girls
    • Wa’oñdoñgwe’dá·gwa
    • Andromeda
    • the thin glass
    • Corpses in Frame
    • Pulled Pork Dies in Ketchup
    • This Day
  • CREATIVE NONFICTION
    • A Guide to Becoming God
    • Refeeding
  • FICTION
    • Minotaur
    • Off Camera
    • Bigfoot Goes to Waffle House
  • AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Sequoia Nagamatsu
  • Student Editor BOOK REVIEWS
    • Hellions
    • The Book of Kin
    • The Sentence
    • Startlement
    • Daydreamers
    • The Museum of Unnatural Histories
    • Obligations to the Wounded

RUNESTONE Volume 12:
My Wicked Sinew

EDITOR’S NOTE
from HALEE KIRKWOOD


POETRY

“…or myth or…”  LIAM CAMPBELL
Fire Ant  MOLLY GERARD
Selkie Bride  MOLLY GERARD
Aubade To a Regrettable Dream  GOLDA GRAIS
IV  LILIANA GRAVES
Keen  LILIANA GRAVES
Redemptress  LILIANA GRAVES
Myths and Promises for Brown Girls  AIMEN AHSON HAFEEZ
Wa’oñdoñgwe’dá·gwa  E. JONES
Andromeda  ALANAH TUOHEY
the thin glass  LIVI WELCH
Corpses in Frame  LIVI WELCH
Pulled Pork Dies in Ketchup  ALICE YOUTZ
This Day  CINDY ZHAO


CREATIVE NONFICTION

A Guide to Becoming God  LUCIA RESTREPO BRALLY
Refeeding  CINDY ZHAO


FICTION

Minotaur  IVAN HOLTZINGER
Off Camera  RUT JIMENEZ
Bigfoot Goes to Waffle House  OLIVIA LANGSTON


INTERVIEW
With Sequoia Nagamatsu by ALEX JASPERS


BOOK REVIEWS
by STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD

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