A literary magazine for quiet pieces that find their own sources of light

Issue Five

Winter Edition 2026

Fiction

Erin Arata

The Cellist

Cecy Grace

Gunchapel Edge

Dana Leung

Jellyfish Tears


Flash Fiction

William Cass

A Brief Incident

Mario Senzale

The Pear Tree

Yurii Tokar

Radish


Creative Nonfiction

Colette Love Hilliard

Fragile


Poetry

Joyce Rain Anderson

Green

(How I Pray)

Quiet Stampede

Arielle Arbushites

Strands

Michael Blaine

Bite

Julia Bucci

Looking

Laura Dennis

Screen Door

Gary P. English

Blackbird in Snow

Isabelle King

mother, monster

Owen Habel Lwanda

First Light

Devanshi Patel

Grey

Sean Whalen

Iowa Perspective