Ultraviolet Magazine Volume 27

UV magazine vol. XXVII

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Co-Editors in Chief

Sadie Levine

Annie Rogers

Head of Social Media

Sonja Smith

Co-Heads of Events

Samantha Nicastro

Anna Nicolela

Assistant Events

Eliza Murphy

Alana Lambert-Dias

Website Team Layout Team

Jade DeLuca-Ahooja (Layout Head)

Katelyn Zeng (Layout Assistant)

Amy Hong (Website Head)

Katelyn Zeng (Website Assistant)

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Distance by Rebecca van Gennip

Departure by Rebecca van Gennip

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This year was Ultraviolet Magazine’s 27th year as a platform showcasing the creativity of talented artists from the Queen’s community and beyond. Our print publication aims to highlight the strongest submissions from the past year, and the magazine’s website has allowed artists’ submissions to reach a wider audience while creating a digital record of Ultraviolet’s accepted works.

This year’s Volume of Ultraviolet Magazine is a refection of all the time put in by our editorial board and the talented artists who have contributed. We were fortunate enough this year to have events back in person and rejoin the student and Kingston community. Our events team worked to bridge the gap that resulted after the few years of Covid isolation. So, we would like to thank the events team; Anna, Sam, Eliza and Alana. We’d also like to thank Jade, who’s been with the magazine for 2 years and completely transformed the style of the layout. We’d like to thank Katelyn who has taken on the role of assistant layout during her frst year of university. We would also like to thank the social media head, Sonja, for maintaining the important connection between Ultraviolet and its social media following. Finally, we’d like to thank Amy for consistently maintaining the website.

A special thank you goes out to everyone who was brave enough to put their work out there and submit to the magazine, without them this truly wouldn’t be possible. It is our goal for Ultraviolet Magazine to foster inspiration and motivation for local artists and writers, and we are confdent that this volume will fulfl that goal.

On behalf of the editorial board, we’re excited to share the 27th Volume of Ultraviolet Magazine with the world.

Sincerely, Annie and

Sadie Evidence by: Fallon Hartnett

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Kiss It Better Rachel Tischler

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Renovations Stella Phlpott

THIS INEXPLICABLE NEED

EDWARD LEE

The silence you left comforts me more than your voice ever did, or your touch, or, for that matter, your very presence, my existence one of constantly coiled apprehension that I might disappoint you, anger you, lose you, all of which I did, and more, but that is not why you are gone;

your heart simply ceased, quickly, surprisingly. Your heart ceased and now you are gone.

I miss you, without missing you, the comfort of silence, the absence of the fear of angering you, not enough to calm my need for you beside me, this inexplicable need.

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(There is a story i heard)

Sarah

There is a story I heard of a little girl made of layers upon her skin so bright with a shine that blinds

Many wanted this shine that she wore with pride, with every year she grew her skin grew more fashy and she slowly gave her light away by only saying just ask me

She was naive but she was only a little girl

Not any knowing better and letting wasps to have her shine

Ultimately led to her demise

Wasps came to rip her apart layer by layer with false words, they Lied about who they were and why they arose

With every tear that fell, her body and soul were expose

Left with nothing at all, she no longer had the shine that many wanted

Now she’s left in the dark stumbling and gaging blind

Grabbing whatever layers she can fnd to cover her blackhole, Now left with a blanket of layers and fre made from coal

Unfair ending for the little girl now woes

But no one can change it because that’s how the story goes

Mindy

Shadows

Montiel Quintanilla Shower Meenakashi Ghadial

Shadows

The Home I Gave You Was Temporary Naomi Berlyne

Backseat

Mindy Baroody 4

skin, they lied wanted to fnd Out of Place Naomi Berlyne

Meenakashi Ghadial

fish seventeen

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seventeen Valerie Letts

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James Chronicle

Lucy Lee Mason

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untitled Sarah MQ

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Toronto Street Aynsley

Rae

I dream my molars are knocked loose for the third night in a row. Mika tells me that means I know loss, or I am about to.

I repeat things aloud, mocking with a sure sincerity of a New Zealand accent, a shot of gin and pickle juice

Hailey falls through the rotting deck in Deebank, a parachute opens in my throat.

Scrape the salt from the table, pluck the feathers from the grill of Zach s truck. Keep the names, swaddle them heavy to your chest

Working in a bookstore is the only way you ll take up reading.

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Looking Over Your Shoulder

Sophia Francesca LeBlanc

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I remember visiting the AGO with Jada, telegrams framed between Joni and Leonard He s just a guy, she tells me. Aren t we all angry at 11 pm? Still we sit, knock kneed and clinging sunken in the leather adjacent the projector screen One day we will get a two bedroom, I ll knit her a new scarf and buy an overpriced coaster.

Billiards scatter fights over a dollar in the alley behind College and Ossington, Taryn kills her cigarette between my index finger and thumb because I ask her to.

Raccoons suckle peach pits in spring, huddle over my teeth, and chew.

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