Issue Ninety

December 2025

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. Issue 90 is a double issue with 17 pieces of flash brilliance. Thank you to everyone who lent a hand in getting this issue done. To the submissions editors, Circuit Trainers from SmokeLong Fitness, the creative writing classes and their instructors who read the submissions queue, thank you… Continue reading Issue Ninety

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Love ; Sigh Claire Y. Guo(Read author interview)
Gender study; gestalt KT Herr(Read author interview)
Submariner Lindsey Pharr(Read author interview)
Signal:Noise Max Steiner(Read author interview)
Party Song Vaneeza Sohail(Read author interview)
Window Seat Valerie Hughes(Read author interview)
the sentence tree Nadia Born(Read author interview)
Good Audrey Obuobisa-Darko(Read author interview)
Touch Tank Christopher Lee Chilton(Read author interview)
Good Sign of Future Happiness Katherine Plumhoff(Read author interview)
Slack Brandon McNeice(Read author interview)
Boys t.r. san(Read author interview)
Grave CJ Scruton(Read author interview)
Worm Sara Hills(Read author interview)
Pigeon-toed Claire Y. Guo(Read author interview)
The Roommate Holly Mitchell(Read author interview)
Conflagration Kills Five Wyatt Bonikowski(Read author interview)

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