Contents

Introduction

Letter from the Fiction Editorial Team

Letter from the Multimedia and Poetry Editorial Team

Letter from the Nonfiction Editors

Fiction

Old Friend – Angela Mazzola

Silver Charm – Angela Mazzola

The Real Monster – Angela Mazzola

How to Put up a Christmas Tree – Sarah Nilson

Up Rises the Daughter of the Deep – Lily Novak

Season of Revenge – Matthew Terio

Home, Company, and Cleanup – Nolan Yasa

Art and Photography

Photography

Contributors: Maxwell Campbell, Lisa Greene, Daniel Kowalski, Matthew Loomis, Lily Marceau, Michael Mulkern, DJ Murphy, David Phipps, Jay Sullivan, Luke Tamm

Mixed Media

Contributors: Dr. Sujata Bhatia, Denise Carrington, Margo Connolly-Masson, Fitz FitzGerald, Celia Killion, Brianna Perkow, Gina Pezzella

Poetry

Parallel Biography – Jessica Connelly

Your Sailors – Graelan Hoverkamp

Company – Mary Kane

For the Hoarders – Mary Kane

Good Love – Mary Kane

The Water – Mary Kane

Breaking – Celia Killion

982 Millibars – Michael Mulkern

What I Can See – Brianna Perkow

Tour Guide – Mike Rainnie

Spring Prayer – Mike Rainnie

Going To The Tax Guy – Mike Rainnie

Before The Work – Mike Rainnie

Prestidigitation – Mike Rainnie

Fish Face – Madi Salinas

What Makes Me Happy – Madi Salinas

Non-Fiction

I Will Always be Waiting – Marlee Craig

Bubble Toes – Natalie Gale

Covid Memoir – Imani Primus

The Day I Became Legible to Myself – Thomas Mondeau

Editors’ Contributions

Reincarnation – Henry Dang

Homogonized – Luke DuBois

Master Plumber – Luke DuBois

Lampocteis cruentiventer – Finnley Hire

Stranger Things Season Five (or The Coming of Nothing At All) – Eric Kennedy

The Wild Flower – Alysse Stasio