issue five

Cover Art: Inside the Aimless Automaton
Artist Bio: Ari Hoskinson is an artist enthralled by the strange and sepulchral. She creates illustrations of the stories and poems she writes using various printmaking methods, namely mezzotint and monoprinting. She graduated with her BFA in studio art from Eastern Washington University in June 2025.
poetry
Ammara Younas — God Goes into a Fugue State & Visits the Earth
Amy Soricelli — O Fortuna
Anthony Ikeh — aubade for a five letter word city
Denise Gilchrist — He Watched Me Cross the Cafeteria
Kristin Camitta Zimet — vigil
Jose Padua — The Night Jimi Hendrix Died
prose
Shivani Krishna — You Don't Have to Make Art and Other Lies
DC Diamondopolous — 1969: The Stonewall Inn
Will Maguire — The Patron Saint of Hireath
Brooke Mitchell — Love Didn't Die When You Were Nineteen
Marlene DeVere — Stuff Not on My Resume in the ‘60s
David Serafino — Chloroquine
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