Issue 18, Spring 2026
Foreword
The end is nigh in Issue 18.
Included in this issue is work from Andrew Arends, Krosby Arias, Liberty Banas, DJ Chmiel, Breon Cribb, Pat Devlin, Donna Dutson, Deborah Feinstein, Nathan Hawkins-Henry, Milaya Jackson, Michael Markewinski, Mikaelis Mckeever, Sierah Romero, Erin Roper and Aidan Skidmore.
Arends, Arias, Chmiel, Dutson, Feinstein, Hawkins-Henry, Markewinski, and Romero present viewpoints from a wide-range of characters and scenarios.
Devlin and Roper celebrate short film with their entries to the 6th Annual Mohave College Flash Film Festival.
Finally, our poets Banas, Cribb, Devlin, Jackson, and Mckeever explore the struggles of finding peace within oneself and the world.
Contents
Fiction
If Things Had Gone Differently by Andrew Arends
Eternal Rot by Krosby Arias
Peculiar Existence by DJ Chmiel
The Hopeful Fence Merging of Mother and Daughter by Donna Dutson
Zeus by Deborah Feinstein
Cheerleader Moms by Deborah Feinstein
The Red Coyote Note by Deborah Feinstein
ACROMANIA by Nathan Hawkins-Henry
The Sting of Rejection by Michael Markewinski
Transformation by Michael Markewinski
The Secret Garden by Sierah Romero
Stowaway by Aidan Skidmore
Film
Silver Bell Hell: A Hualapai Mountain Legend by Pat Devlin
Drag! by Erin Roper
Poetry
My Mind is an Ocean by Liberty Banas
A Glimpse of Trapping Pain in Sentences by Breon Cribb
Cedarcrest by Pat Devlin
Surrounded by Milaya Jackson
Reversing Nation by Mikaelis Mckeever