TABLE OF CONTENTS FICTION AND NONFICTION Tidal Waves The Alter of Ego Ticket in My Hand The Loss of a Father: Effects and Lessons The Call Coming Up for Air Survivor: A Widow’s Tale of Strength Reflection Every Day I’m Hustlin’ Control Change for the Better Seven and in Rehab
Casey Allen Mary K. Maturo Emily Arellano Christiana Ogbuezi Maricela Clemente Grace Perreira Stephanie McClure Stephanie McClure Bret Allen Green Courtney Lockwood Kamryn Keith Evangelina Reyes
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Cristal Gonzalez Casey Allen Mackenzie Guzek Mackenzie Guzek Jared Preciado Mary K. Maturo
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P O E T RY This is America Ascension Monet’s Admirer Raison D’etre The Cynical Mind of a Pothead Skater Circa
PHOTOGR APHY Hard to Breathe Justice for Breonna Taylor Bulletproof Vest Web of Paths All of You He Sees Us Reasonably Glorious Where Will We Go Reverence Before the Precipice Nature’s Imperfect Symmetry Respite June 19th My Hurried Choices On I-30 Mama, I Can’t Breathe Time to Reflect A Mother’s Hands Finding Southern Gothic The Ruins Over the North Sea Fort Worth Courthouse
Sonali Mittal Front Cover Johnathan Johnson 6 Johnathan Johnson 6 Hannah Milton 8 Rolando Galvan 9 Holly Justus 10 Mary K. Maturo 13 Rolando Galvan 17 Mary Holcomb 19 Mary Holcomb 20 Sonali Mittal 26 Mary Holcomb 30 Johnathan Johnson 33 Rolando Galvan 35 Johnathan Johnson 39 Johnathan Johnson 40 Mary Holcomb 45 Sonali Mittal 47 Mary Holcomb 48 Mary Holcomb 48 Johnathan Johnson Back Cover
