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Issue 26
Spring 2025

Memories: Past, Present, & Future

Editor's Choice
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A Wish

JARED BROWN

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JARED BROWN

The Tale of A Lost Knight 

    The bells that tolled above his head were so loud and clear his chest vibrated with the sound. He was too late. His guilt weighs him down, anchoring him to the Earth which rumbles with the villagers' cheers, “the witch is dead!” The cool December wind shows him no mercy as it attempts to whisk through him with fury, as if it were angry with him. As if she is now carried by the wind, showing him her rage. 

He grows overwhelmed with the villagers’ misplaced joy. 

    “What is there to celebrate? An innocent girl died!” he cries into his scarf. 

    “Innocent? She manipulated all those men to die! She deserved to be burned at the stake!” the man

next to him roars at his defense. 

Poetry
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She

LISBET LOPEZ

The Only Thing Better Than America Money

LAIBA​ USMAN

Poems

SAVANNAH TAYLOR​

Worth a Penny

SOPHIA DICRISTOFORO

Harold’s Wife

ETHAN LUCAS

Laetitia, 2008 Hanoverian mare

By FREJA FRIGARD

Fiction
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A Lion's Smile

LAIBA USMAN

Antigone in the American West

ZOE FLORES

The Boxer

By GRACE GARNER

Visual Art
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Smoke and Serenity

By JORDAN HARRIS

Multimedia
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Discovery

JARED BROWN

A Wish

JARED BROWN

Issue 25 - Spring 2024

Issue 25
Spring 2024

Managing Editor Letter

Ways & Wanderers

Editor's Choice
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Wild Flowers 

By Cara Reeder

rose out of the grime 

and filth people threw 

out their windows 

as they drove by. 

They grew up 

above the guardrail, 

their man-made prison 

and stretched their petals 

wide, stars in a gray and green sky. 

Poetry

The Thoughts I had When I Had Time

AARON FLETCHER

Cycling

MADALYNN BAKER

Poems

MORGAN LOFF

Limbo

AARON FLETCHER

Lucas Oil

ROE LAROCHE

Raw Feelings

LYNNEA JOHNSON

Surrogate Stones are Here to Stay

MARTHA LABINE

Visual Art
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Fentanyl Hotbox

DILLON CAIN

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Full Space Ship

BENNETT REIS

Multimedia
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Finding Alexandra

DILLON CAIN

Issue 24 - Spring 2023

Managing Editor Letter

Issue 24
Spring 2023

Special Commemorative Issue

Editor's Choice

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Roses on the River

By Cara Reeder

If you are reading this, dear Theoden, then I have truly gone mad. Because, you see, you are dead. People say you are mad when you talk to yourself. But I am clearly not mad, because I am not talking to myself...I’m talking to you, Theoden. However, I do know that you can’t be reading this. Because you’re dead. And that’s a fact.
That’s a fact. Fact. Fact. Fact.
I don’t like facts. They’re so tasteless, so bitter. People spit them around like they’re a religion. Or perhaps a particular curse word to dwell on, contemplate, feel in one’s soul, then spit out at the right moment to attack one unexpectedly and triumphantly. But facts are blind. They only see things on the surface level. They trick you into having a sense of control. But I do not fall for these tricks so easily. I’ve always had this gift, to see things beneath the surface, to see all the grays that make people so uncomfortable. But you know this, Theoden. Because I have already told you.

Grief

TAYLER HELMBRIGHT

New Alumni Work

My Poetry

ERIC HAGEN

Dancing With Divination

GRACE HUNTER

A Collection of Grief

AMANDA CURLESS

Poems

HELEN McCORMICK

Spotlight on Alumni's
Past Submissions

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Elephant

REBECCA COSTELLO

Issue 1 - 2010

Eagle 
By Margaret Weirerman 

Issue 1 - 2010

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World River 

MIRANDA SCHARF  

Issue 6 - 2013

WILDFIRE

By Diane Reaynold 

Issue 5 - 2012

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Perpetual Motion

AMANDA CURLESS

Issue 12 - 2016

Dream

ERIC HAGEN

Issue 7 - 2017

Night Sky
By Benjamin Jones 

Issue - Fall 2017

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Poems

JASMINE WARNER

Issue 17 - Fall 2019

Drifting Into Darkness

Issue 7 - 2017

Poetry

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Poetry

LORELYN NOLTE

Love and Consideration

JACKIE MICHAUD

Two Poems

JEREMY ISON

A Waiting Game 

DEJA REID

Self Portrait

TAYLER HELMBRIGHT

Fiction

Case cXs4372:

A Collection of Paranormal Circumstances

J.J. BRANNOCK

Roads Ends in Water

ALEX GARRET

The Secrets of a Library 

CARA REEDER

It Shall Be Taken Care Of

LAUREN DUNEVANT

Self Portrait

TAYLER HELMBRIGHT

Non-Fiction

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Flowers and Thorns

KAYLA HESS

Myself in Wonderland

VERONICA KRAMER

With Wisdom Comes Growth

KERIGAN POLLARD 

Multimedia

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Legion of Kings

JJ BRANNOCK


The Fair has Ended

RYAN BACH

Naturally Formed

DESTINY JONES

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