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  • Issue #25 – Autumn 2020
    • Editorial – Autumn 2020
    • Twilight Instructions for Summer Spirits
    • A Lesson About the Speaker
    • Farmer’s Market, Post-Eviction
    • Spindle
    • Carousel
    • A Gravitationally Collapsed Object
    • Megrim
    • Chrysalid Truths
    • Divergent and Rotten to the Core
    • Skin Color as Inconvenience
    • Learning the Way
    • Unincorporated
    • I Dreamed of a Woman
    • The Breaking Heart Tries Not to Ask Questions
    • Seven Steps to Reach Your Father Across the Great Divide
    • For Now
    • Weighted Graph
    • Song to Symmetry
    • Expedition to the Surface of GJ 3470b
    • At the End
  • Issue #26 – Winter 2020-21
    • Editorial – Winter 2020-21
    • More Noise Than the Wind and the Rain
    • A Newborn Thing
    • Cartography
    • The Child-Eating Forest Speaks Its Mind
    • The ten categories of being believed by Aristotle
    • Make Believe
    • Andromeda’s Lament
    • Creon’s Apology
    • For Iris
    • A Frozen Heart
  • Previous Issues
    • Year One
      • Issue #1 – Autumn 2014
        • Editorial (Autumn 2014)
        • A Summoning of Monsters
        • Love Letters for the Itinerant
        • The Furtive Pantheon
        • The devil riding your back
        • A Broken Heart
        • Arson Poetica
        • For Sale
        • Sacred
        • Made Out of the Terror
        • Collyer
        • Self-Portrait as Bilbo Baggins
        • Topological Grief
        • Ghosting
        • Love in Graduate School
        • Scion
        • The Knowing
        • moss covered
        • Sea Widow
        • The Word for Love
        • Orpheus Rides West/Letter to Eurydice from Deep inside the Teenage Wasteland
        • Make the Night Go Faster
      • Issue #2 – Winter 2014/15
        • Editorial (Winter 2014/15)
        • Entreaty
        • The Haunting
        • The Martyr of Baikonur
        • Entwined ‘Neath Stars and Empty Suns
        • Pentimento
        • Ada
        • The Sirens’ Song to the U.N. Security Council: Monday, July 10, 2017
        • The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
        • Hypnos and Thanatos: The Embrace
        • Auspicious
        • The Lark, The Peat, The Star, and Our Time
      • Issue #3 – Spring 2015
        • Editorial (Spring 2015)
        • Musicide
        • Blood and Honey
        • The Animals, Who Are In Your Mouth
        • Drowned City
        • Bones
        • Among the Dead
        • The Occupation of Millers Creek
        • On the Tree
        • Myth of the Mother Snake
        • Merlusine
      • Issue #4 – Summer 2015
        • Editorial (Summer 2015)
        • The Sea Roads
        • Singing Her Body Oceanic
        • Ink
        • Bone-House
        • The Hero’s Journey
        • Blue
        • A Visit With Morgan le Fay
        • Until Waking
        • Gunmetal
        • rain
    • Year Two
      • Issue #5 – Autumn 2015
        • Editorial (Autumn 2015)
        • Baba Yaga Has Tea With Kostchai the Deathless
        • An Unexpected Guest
        • Between the Lines
        • Litany; Dust
        • The Garden Wild
        • The Night Before an Interstellar Journey
        • Origami Crane / Light-Defying Spaceship
        • The Start of the Past
        • Splinter Song
        • Tasseography of English Breakfast Tea at 30,000 Feet
      • Issue #6 – Winter 2015/2016
        • Editorial (Winter 2015/2016)
        • Dionysus of the Downtown
        • White: Outside of Color
        • How to be something not real
        • Changeling Manifesto
        • Angiogenesis
        • My Own Lightning
        • swan
        • What to Do With a Photosynthetic Lover
        • Desert Mermaid
        • Changeling
        • The Selkie Before Summer
        • If You Find Me Out
      • Issue #7 – Spring 2016
        • Editorial (Spring 2016)
        • The Lies You Learned
        • Elegy for the Hulk
        • For ours is the glory
        • Ecdysis
        • bedtime story, age 96
        • Rat-Infested Ship Off the Coast of Britain
        • The Art of the Blood Sacrifice
        • Sketches
        • Faith
        • (House)
        • The Wheredrobe
        • inventory: the ghosts in the bedroom
        • Lepidopteramancer
      • Issue #8: Summer 2016
        • Editorial (Summer 2016)
        • Translations of a Runestone Found in Minnesota
        • A priest, church windows, & divination
        • Saint of the Gracious Smile, your lips are cruel
        • Exposing Tricks
        • 8 Ways Any Girl Can Become More Attractive, According to Science
        • Flesh
        • Jellyfish/Out of Water
        • Wattle Skinned
        • Yoga Chip
        • WERE-
        • Million-Year Elegies – Hallucigenia
        • Just So Story (The Four Faces of Luck)
        • Hexagram 64: Taste the Salt
    • Year Three
      • Issue #9: Autumn 2016
        • Editorial (Autumn 2016)
        • The Ritual
        • An Angel Considers His Fallen Brother
        • Conditional Statements
        • Exvocation
        • For Lonnie
        • The Pacific is Wine Pink
        • The Wait
        • How I Lost the Sky
        • To the Waters
        • Giant-Killer, 1915
        • Fusion Dream
        • After the Forest Fire
        • Mother Tornado
      • Issue #10 – Winter 2016/2017
        • Editorial (Winter 2016/2017)
        • the mountain, in g major
        • Skin
        • The Were
        • Leda Feels Empathy for Her Swan
        • Donkeyskin
        • Wanted:
        • Waking
        • The Widow and the Wave
        • Behold and Beholden
        • In Quietude
        • Thanatopoiesis
        • Seer
        • The Star-Drinkers
        • Last Call at the Hypothetical Tavern
      • Issue #11 – Spring 2017
        • Editorial: Spring 2017
        • The Well
        • Wild Cartography
        • October Wildflower
        • The Witch’s House
        • Woodwork
        • House of two trees
        • Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song
        • Nautilus Cup
        • A Lover, Asleep
        • Birch Bark Quilt
      • Issue #12 – Summer 2017
        • Editorial (Summer 2017)
        • Of Iliaster
        • Till death do us not part
        • Night Swim
        • Witch-Love
        • The Echo of Water
        • And They Roared in Answer
        • Circe’s Guests
        • Versus
        • Unicorns
        • Superman Smokes
        • Absence
        • The Simple Poem
    • Year Four
      • Issue #13 – Autumn 2017
        • Editorial (Autumn 2017)
        • Small Town Witches
        • New Holloway
        • Corvideo
        • A History of Biophysics
        • The Magic 8-Ball Is Having None Of It
        • Persephone Kidnaps Him
        • Solar Eclipse
        • Gang of Brides
        • Lokabrenna
        • Cobalt
        • Elektra to Antigone
        • Secrets
        • How I Lost My Chastity
        • Reclining Janus, Nude
        • The Alchemy of Arsenic
        • Asomatognosia
        • Ode to Things I Left Behind
        • Be My Leviathan
        • Cthulhu Listens to the Beach Boys
        • Force Nine
      • Issue #14 – Winter 2017-2018
        • Editorial: Nuclear Winter 2017-18
        • Sestina for Marzanna
        • Devotion
        • Armament
        • Enthusiasts of Ruin
        • a battleground courses in jingfei
        • White Noise
        • Watching the Centaur Races with Yeh-Yeh
        • One-Way Ticket
        • Martrees on Terra
        • In Uniprose Between Two Books
        • Endings
        • Archaeological Record
        • Immersed
        • Fountain
      • Issue #15 – Spring 2018
        • Editorial – Spring 2018
        • Green Thumbs
        • Across the Anvil and Burning
        • Dissimulation With Birds
        • Current
        • Orpheus
        • Lost Girls
        • The Witch’s House
        • Our Badlands
        • All Dead Things Shall Come To Me
        • The Parasite
        • chill im a nice person I just hate everybody
      • Issue #16 – Summer 2018
        • Editorial – Summer 2018
        • parasitic
        • How to trick bees into singing
        • The Black Paintings
        • Seraphima
        • Black Swan
        • It’s Lohengrin, but
        • Beauty Routine
        • Fire in the Chart
        • Vulpine Rede
        • Rabbit Pulls a Magician Out of Her Hat
        • Semi-Tropical
    • Year Five
      • Issue #17 – Autumn 2018
        • Editorial – Autumn 2018
        • The Dryad’s Lament for Autumn
        • Athenadora
        • Lilac
        • Dead-Eye Girl
        • The Story that the Small Thing Tells
        • Advice to a Villain
        • Gone
        • Unpacking
        • Smoking with the Dead
        • The Sea-Wolf of Brittany
        • Anagolay, Goddess of Lost Things
        • Beach Community
      • Issue #18 – Winter 2018-19
        • Editorial – Winter 2018-19
        • Things That Will Keep You Through Winter
        • In the end times we court the silence
        • The Dissolution of Icarus
        • Proserpina
        • Snow: White; White: Snow
        • Syncope
        • Tomorrow’s Moments
        • Sometimes Sirens
        • Elegies of the Winter-Born Whales
        • Take Good Care of the Car Please
        • Wildfire
      • Issue #19 – Spring 2019
        • Stone
        • Trees and What They Whisper
        • Lady Macbeth’s Green Gown
        • to put aside all fear
        • An Automatic Cajachina
        • After the Faeries
        • Train Graffiti
        • I’m Dousing Myself in Kerosene
        • Fox Thoughts
        • The Reliquary
        • The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry
        • The Goddess of Laying Words Down One By One
      • Issue #20 – Summer 2019
        • Editorial – Summer 2019
        • In The Waning
        • This Permanent Now
        • Holloways, Green Lanes, and the Old Straight Track
        • The Goddess of Time
        • Bartleby in Lyon
        • Treason
        • Silver Tongue
        • Pearling
        • Red Carpet
        • Baby, I’ve Been Having Bad Dreams
        • Mystic Cascades
        • Loaf Mass
        • AXIAL TILT
        • David Wojnarowicz vs. Entropy
        • Fallen But Not Down
    • Year Six
      • Issue #21 – Autumn 2019
        • Editorial – Autumn 2019
        • Odyssey
        • Brine and Vanishings 
        • Eurydice Confesses
        • Phaedra in Hades
        • The Parting of Giants
        • Echo
        • Alternate Galatea
        • What happened to the 12th dancing princess (circa 1946)
        • A Maze of Marble and Mind
        • Minotaur
        • Cassandra at Last Call
        • Yeah This Will Work
        • Child of the Mountain
        • Icarus’ Father
        • For Juliet
        • Self-Care for Villains
        • In/Retrograde
        • The Tensile Strength of a Guide Cable
        • Slow Walk
        • . ….. ..story .. time
      • Issue #22 – Winter 2019-20
        • Editorial – Winter 2019-20
        • If you see me, weep
        • Refraction
        • Consider Me Feral
        • Lightbulbs
        • Matryoshka Doll
        • Place Settings
        • Better Than Wellingtons
        • You and Your Tulpa
        • Mojo Lost
        • Na Na Na   Na Na Na Na
        • My Relationship with Water
        • Two Kinds of People
        • recursion
        • Sonnet for the Vast Beyond
      • Issue #23 – Spring 2020
        • Editorial – Spring 2020
        • Chaos Theory
        • Inscription on a Ruined Plinth
        • Honeycombed
        • Fig Wasp
        • A Dish Best Served
        • gnats in my head
        • The Awakening: A Witch in Four Acts