Issue Thirty-Eight: Fall 2025

Fall arrives slowly, felt in cool wisps of pre-dawn air and skies that hold the scent of rain even when no drops fall. The season—like so much in this moment—seems unsettled, pulled between renewal and ruin, danger and possibility. That precarious liminality runs throughout this issue. Richard Weaver unsettles the fixity of things as “dreams of ceilings become floors,” while Jen Schneider’s Why Trust Isn’t Real admits: “It’s always been fiction, / I’m a fool to have believed / my own story.” Kimberly White writes, “learning to breathe in water is easy, as soon as you agree to drown,” yet Gospel Chinedu warns, “the fishes are drowning in their / own water,” carrying “burdens . . . vast like the sea of my god.”

Our fall issue includes work by Ahrend Torrey, Connor Fisher, Fendy S. Tulodo, Gospel Chinedu, Jen Schneider, Jenny Isaacs, Joanne Esser, John A. deSouza, Kathy Bruce, Kimberly White, Kristin Van Tassel, Marissa Glover, Richard Fox, Richard Weaver, Rob Hardy, Sarah Banks, and Sarah Watkins.