JULY 2024 / ISSUE 35

Part 4: Your Angel, Nadine

by Swati Sudarsan

Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was the soft buzz of excitement to finally be alone together, but there was a palpable frisson between them—their elbows…

A Sea Tale

by Deborah Stein

I have always wanted to make a children’s book, but stories for children don’t seem to come these last few years. Perhaps because I am a thousand years…

mekararuanan

by Michellan Sarile-Alagao

My great-grandmother had been dead for years when my soul fled. I searched days for my soul, going back and forth between our old haunts, the places…

clicking a last sacred letter of love

by Shelby Silver

From an early age, I felt called to help safeguard our seas, and those who rely on them. As ecology focuses on the interconnected relationships…

Water

by Jesse Sorrell

An emerald sting in your eyes makes you shudder-blink. / Yellow is a lift of the sky. Red is the smoke of memory. / Green is the lung emerging from water….

dervish; wolf 4

by Melissa Leto

you’re spinning       let me steady you.
once upon a forest   a girl wandered deep into the veil / of green led by        the sound of rabbits…