issue 50

image of a hand holding a lit match with smoke and light undulating from the flame. — Featured image: “Match” by Molly Klingler

poetry

“Like” by Kurt Olsson

“The Elephant of Amnesia” by Richard Weaver

“In the End” by Richard Weaver

“Aubade from a Balcony in Winter, After Watching La Notte” by Max Lasky

“Self-Assessment” by BEE LB

“The Question Remains” by Abigail Dembo

“Sunday League” by Daniel Romo

fiction

“The Virus of Elegance” by Christine Kwon

“Life is Not Real” by JB Hwang

“A City of Hall Monitors” by J. T. Townley

creative non-fiction

“Freedom Plays a Show at a Ballet Studio in Grand Rapids and I Think About All the Vodka That’s Passed Through My Lips” by Liam Strong

“Good Grief” by Acadia Currah

“Foraging to Find Ferns” by Matt Bearden

art + new media

“It’s all in my head” by Kaleen Repsher

“Family character” by Emanuela Iorga

“Fish Tank Arrangement I” by Natsumi K Goldfish

“Match” by Molly Klingler

“A_picture of my fridge” by Sierra St. Onge

“Untitled” by Rachel Coyne

Golden Ox Contest

First Place: “Forever War” by Chris Lombardo

Second Place: “Potato Poultice” by Mitzi Dorton

Third Place: “Delivered” by John Francis Istel