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

Issue Three

Summer Edition 2025

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Fiction

Colleen Addison

Cathedral

Sal Difalco

Sister Claudia

Daniel Hudon

The Unknown Beach

Desiree Remick

The Smell of Rust


Creative Nonfiction

Penny Nolte

A Spring Storm

The Super Moon


Poetry

Resoun B. Acharya

Apology, with a cup of tea

Deborah Blenkhorn

A Bird Got in My Bag

Maude Bryant

Petals Fall, Petals Dream

John Delaney

The Shaman

The Ice Cream Maker of Khatgal

Setting Up a Ger (Yurt)

M F Drummy

My Wife, With Bangs

Louis Faber

Adopting

Jonathan Fletcher

It Wasn’t Until Rachel Dolezal That I First Heard the Word Transracial

Zero

Joanna Friedman

A Sonnet for a Future Day

Johanna E. Hall

“Hope” is stronger than feathers

John Horvath

Transplanting the Vine

Albrin Junior

Dear Africa

Qwyen Le

wild stallion

Mark J. Mitchell

Old Sailor’s Home

Charlotte Poitras

vigil

Susan Shea

Grains of Truth

Katherine Shock

Offering

Upstate

Emily-Sue Sloane

Hope

Lou Ventura

Talking to Birds

Claudia Wysocky

The Language of Dreams

John T. Leonard

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