Introduction

Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager

Against Hope

Zoe Boyer; artwork by Susan L. Pollet

On my second alien abduction

Jo Ann Clark; artwork by Tiffany Victoria López

Slow Leaving

Clara Collins; artwork by Paul Rabinowitz

The Robin who Showed the Way

Lisa Compo; artwork by Chris Goldberg

AN ENDING WITH FERRETS

Patrick Deeley; artwork by Stevie Mann

Solstice

Melina Draper; artwork by Tiffany Victoria López

Eight Morels Growing from a Heap of Gravel

Mike Good; artwork by Kelly DuMar

The Dead End of the Leaf

Carolyn Guinzio; artwork by Katie Hughbanks

Hospice Nocturne

Shelby Handler; artwork by Margaret Warriner Buck

Stubborn

Veronica Kornberg; artwork by John Henry Twachtman

ELEGY FOR I DON’T KNOW WHAT BEGINNING WITH A LINE FROM JEAn Valentine

Gary McDowell; artwork by Soichi Sato

Petechiae

Carolyn Oliver; artwork by Ferdinand Bauer

Gratitude

Sam Olson; artwork by Berthe Morisot

Postpartum Fairy tale

Sara Rosenberg; artwork by William Baxter Closson

Horse Latitudes

Jen Grace Stewart; Artwork by Michelle Westmark Wingard

My Mother As Cheesecake

Cynthia White; artwork by Stary Zgred

evening near the village of Dikanka

Kathleen Winter; artwork by James Brugger

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