September 2026 Issue

Poetry by Terry O’Shaughnessy I miss my mother on summer nights,her silhouette crossing the dark garden,moving with the heavy watering… Read more: I miss my mother on summer nights

Nonfiction by Sherri Wright I believe in purple, the perfect blend of blue and red. A mixture of cool and… Read more: I Believe in Purple

Poetry by Amy Nash I wish I could be there for the seahorsewhen she growls.Build a coral cave for privacy… Read more: Holdfast

Poetry by Irena Praitis I can’t see what’s at the core of it—all the wriggling lines, characters massed     … Read more: Mob

Nonfiction by Stephanie Shafran [Trigger warning: contains reference to suicide] Hello children, this is Daddy. Have you been good children… Read more: The Gift of Your Voice

Poetry by Barbara Wiedemann In the month of June in Moabthe temperature easily reaches ninety-five. But in the nearby La… Read more: Just Another Ordinary Magical Day

Nonfiction by Xinyi (Mel) Song Julie was clumsily unwrapping a pack of Kent No.4 … in the back alley outside… Read more: Girls Who Smoke

Poetry by Sarah Das Gupta Blue September skies suddenly slit open;bombers streaming, screaming overhead.Even the rooks stopping their raucous gossip,seek… Read more: a dying world – bombers returning from a Blitz on London 1940

Poetry by Guadalupe Palos It’s 3:42 AM when I finally get to sit down,Does the rain reach your roof too?Our… Read more: Post-Opus

Poetry by Diane Bier We will meet you at the mountain top—where the eagles soar and the hawks land—the land… Read more: Airy Kiss

Poetry by Lara Lehman What is the point,if not this? To stand, leaningon the unmade bed,this quiet January morning. You… Read more: The God of Small Moments

Poetry by David Ehrenman The color of the harvest,Sunset crowns the laborersRewarding earth for hoursEndured before night’s heraldSays “rest,” enforced… Read more: Pastor and Pasture

Poetry by Rose Brightree this river is scented by its mother the seasalt water running upstreamcoming to meet it halfway… Read more: blue herons