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  • Editor’s Note
  • Creative Nonfiction
    • Shark Attack, by Lizzie Bankowski
    • My Grandfather, A Stranger, by Sydney Cavanagh
    • The Rock I Keep, by Ellyn Gibbs
    • On Fencing, Gummy Worms, and My Inescapable Fear of Living in the Moment, by Mara Koren
    • Leaving the Trees, by Sarah Scott
  • Fiction
    • The Ferris Wheel, Charlie Bartlett
    • The Soul Repairman, by Nicole Kroushl
    • Saltwater Lullabies, by Kaitlin McCoy
  • Poetry
    • Skolios, by Jack Bachmann
    • I Have More Words for Mirror than I Have for Snow, Bobby Bolt III
    • Like the Rains That Wouldn’t Quit and the Sounds Left Behind, by Bobby Bolt III
    • what is holy, by Charlotte Covey
    • #stuckinthevoid, by Sheila Dong
    • A Tending, by Gabriela Natalia Valencia
    • The Stubbornly Persistent Delusions Of, by Sophie Weiner
    • What the Dead Keep, by Sophie Weiner
  • Interview with Joni Tevis
  • Student Editor Book Reviews
    • Apparition Island (fiction)
    • Bone Gap (fiction)
    • Bright Dead Things (poetry)
    • Double Jinx (poetry)
    • Evil Men (creative nonfiction)
    • In Winter’s Kitchen (creative nonfiction)
    • The Red Parts (creative nonfiction)
    • West of Sunset (fiction)
    • Window Left Open (poetry)
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Creative Nonfiction

Shark Attack By Lizzie Bankowski
 

My Grandfather, A Stranger by Sydney Cavanagh
 

The Rock I Keep by Ellyn Gibbs
 

On Fencing, Gummy Worms, and My Inescapable Fear of Living in the Moment by Mara Koren
 

Leaving the Trees by Sarah Scott

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