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FICTION

PETER KISPERT
Breathing Underwater | 13

NANCY BOURNE
Going Under | 35

KYLE ELLINGSON
Our Employer | 52

JONATHAN BLUM
Dignity Shores | 68

REVIEWS

CLAIRE RAVENSCROFT
Agustín de Rojas’s A Legend of the Future | 89

POETRY

BENJAMIN GOLDBERG
Daedalus Builds a Treehouse | 9
This City Hands Me Myths; I Hand Them Back | 10
Psalm for a Great Lake | 12

BRANDON AMICO
What’s Your Sign? | 22
Carnival Mask | 24
View From the Everything | 26

DAVID MOODY
These Little Words | 28
Doors of Night | 30
Trial by Ordeal | 32

JESSE GRAVES
The Residual Site | 46
Cavern | 47
Substrata | 48

MICHAEL DERRICK HUDSON
Blaming Everything on Science at the Turn of the Century | 49
Threnody for Sophia on the Last Day of Winter | 50

BARBARA SIEGEL CARLSON
Wintry Mix | 62
Sponge Bath | 63

ANN KENISTON
Double Version Ode: Verbatim | 64
Substitution Ode: | 66

MICHAEL CARRINO
Before the Deluge | 87
Beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hotel | 88

Lindsay Starck, Moira Marquis | EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Catherine O’Neill

FICTION EDITOR

Rae Yan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Sam Bednarchik

NON-FICTION EDITORS

Sam Bednarchik, Travis Alexander

LAYOUT EDITOR

Samntha Farley

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Sarah George-Waterfield

ART EDITOR

Chloe Accardi

STAFF: Aisha Anwar, Krista Harder, John Ligtenberg, Maddie Norris
FICTION READERS: Laura Broom, Mallory Findlay, Kenneth Lota, Lauren Pinkerton, Anneke Schwob
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Anneke Schwob, Logan Woelk