I don’t know if I would be a very wise person if I tried to describe to you a girl I met named Schaelina Valarian. I suspect her of things, of witchcraft and terrible cooking. She has almost convinced me to accept that torchlight of her smile, haven’t you, Valarian? But she will break free and run if you try to start thinking that she is a nice person. She is made of snips and snails and sugar and spice. I don’t write poems about the dead! I write poems about living people, praising the sweet lightning striking in them.
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Issue 112, published October 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Tobi Alfier, Sophia Carlisle, Jan Ball, Bordnick studio, Kit Carlson, Robert Carr, Sarah Das Gupta, Lynn D. Gilbert, GJ Gillespie, Steven Goldman, Yewon Han, Michael Hower, Kathryn Jordan, Raphael H Kosek, Aiden Kwon, Jennifer LeBlanc, Laurie Lindop, Alice Lowe, Pam F. Martin, Cecil Morris, Samantha Moya, J. Alan Nelson, Jennifer M Phillips, Brendan Praniewicz, Stevie Rosenfeld, Claire Scott, Rosanne Singer, Ignatius O'Neill Sridhar, John L. Stanizzi, Lucinda Trew, Nick Visconti, Matt Wanat, Ann Weil, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.