Spring 2025
Featuring “Spaces: A Nonfiction Portfolio,” this issue includes work by: Keya Mitra, Gretchen VanWormer, Sidney Tilghman, Melissa Kwasny, Carolina Murriel, Wendy Gan, Emily Neuberger, Adrie Rose, Robin Becker, Courtney Conrad, Patrick Kindig, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Ron Block, Rebecca Lehmann, Carlina Duan, Morgan Christie, Annie Diamond, Zachariah Claypole White, Divya Mehrish, Joseph Omoh Ndukwu, Iqra Khan, Khaled Hegazzi, Dolapo Demuren, George Uba, Anthony Yarbrough, Cindy Tran, Becka Mara McKay, Andy Young, Tiffany Jimenez, Romeo Oriogun, Ololade Edun, Funmi Gaji, Grace Olúfémi, Anointing Obuh, Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma, Nicole Yurcaba, and Lailah Shima. Cover art by Madeline Cass.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
No Be Like Those Kine Men
Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Sapphire Gurl
Morgan Christie
Cruiser
Anthony Yarbrough
High Walls
Tiffany Jimenez
Essays
Bruised and Glorious
Keya Mitra
Pink Field, Blue Fog
Gretchen VanWormer
Girl Country
Sidney Tilghman
The American Prairie
Melissa Kwasny
Driving My Tías Through Miami
Carolina Murriel
The Taste of Home
Wendy Gan
Ordinary People
Emily Neuberger
Poetry
Dear, | Dear,
Adrie Rose
The Hardiness Zone | Fortune’s Spindle
Robin Becker
Belly Nuh Fi Round Only Batty | Anything Hands Can Find
Courtney Conrad
By Night
Patrick Kindig
Zeno’s Paradox
Ron Block
Calamity/Catastrophe/Apostrophe/Goodbye (1–7)
Rebecca Lehmann
Higher Education
Carlina Duan
Delight
Annie Diamond
The Angel Applies for Unemployment
Zachariah Claypole White
As the Gastroenterologist Reviews the Colonoscopy Report
Divya Mehrish
We’ve Come to Understand This New World | So Ugly
Joseph Omoh Ndukwu
In the Itinerary, All Things Begin at the End of Other Things
Iqra Khan
The Poet’s Cry
Khaled Hegazzi
A Miracle
Dolapo Demuren
Making Friends without a Topic Sentence | November
George Uba
Eight Estrangements
Cindy Tran
Golden Shovel with Threat of Nuclear Winter (Song of Songs 1:16)
Becka Mara McKay
we get news of what will be war
Andy Young
The Register of Disappearance
Romeo Oriogun
Nigeria Happened So Quick
Ololade Edun
Your Father Builds You a Wing
Funmi Gaji
The Existence of a Woman as Blood Sacrifice
Grace Olúfémi
We Find god on the Battlefield, We Find god in Emptiness
Anointing Obuh
War Start
Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma
Reviews
The Sweating Sickness, Rebecca Lehmann
Nicole Yurcaba
Black Buffalo Woman, Kazim Ali
Lailah Shima