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The Current Issue: Winter 2026 Vol. 132 No. 4
Winter 2025 Vol. 132 No. 4
Cover Artwork by James Carson
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From the Editor ~ James Carson
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Fire – Hamish Guthrie
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The One-Eyed Witch – Lauren Kalinowski
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Homecoming – Jim Leone
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Journeyman's Guide to Navigating Brushes with Fame – Joe Davies
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Be Like Odysseus – Harold Hoefle
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On the Balcony – William Virgil Davis
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Planting Season – Jeric Tindoy Olay
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Drought – Jeric Tindoy Olay
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Only Mines Are Mine! – S. Madeh Piryonesi
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On Losing a War – Gerald Arthur Moore
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My Private Battle Against Dog-Strangling Vine – Ian Birch
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Child – PW Jarungpiterah
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The Emilys – Emily R. Zarevich
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A Partial List of Things That Still Make Me Cry – Katherine Alexandra Harvey
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Fishin', Huntin', Sleddin, 'n' Fixin' - Anthony Jenkins
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Birdsong and the Bugnay Tree – Jeric Tindoy Olay
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Walks with Lulu – Rona Altrows
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14 Propositions to the Oblivion – Fred Sengmueller
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Nosedive – Ashleigh Cochran
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How to Restore a Family Quilt – Anna Elgie
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Quirk – Zuo You, Yi Zhe
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How to Solve a Campus Parking Problem – Egan J. Chernoff
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Battles with Monsters Beowulf in Labrador – Richard Brait
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Junior High School – Gideon Forman
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the loneliness of the long-distance racewalker … “there is no finish line” Parts 4-6 – Glenn Arthur Sweazey
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Kyle, the Human Torpedo – Sean Maschmann
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Street Hockey on Hutchison and Villeneuve, 1981 – Robyn Sarah
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June – Alexis English
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The Great War – Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena
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What he left for us– Tanya Tomasch
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The Screen between Us – Ruth Panofsky
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Hockey Poem – Jonathan Focht
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Inside and Outside Cover photographs of Paris graffiti: James Carson
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