July/August 2025

Creative Nonfiction

• The Consolation of Cabbages

  By Jesse Curran

• The Last Good Time in the Highlander

  By Maggie Shea

• Like a Deer in the Dark

  By LaDonna Witmer

Fiction

• Basho

  By Anne Lauer

• Fighting Wind

  By Sage Tyrtle

• Tomorrow and All the Days After

  By Veronica Montes

Literary Reflections

• The Smell of Relief

  By Crystal Schubert

• What’s Left Undone

  By Julie Pfeiffer

Poetry

• Motherhood for the Daughters of Difficult Mothers

  By Elizabeth M. Castillo

• Dinner with My Daughters

  By Lailah Shima

• Family

  By Lina Marino

• Leap of Faith

  By Sara Rosenberg

• Talking with a New Mom

  By Renee Emerson

• Twenty-five weeks and four days after the death of a marriage

  By Claire Hanlon

• Crossing Borders

  By Linda Holmes

• Beginning to Show

  By Pamela Gemme

• Shelby’s Mom

  By Sara Schraufnagel

Profiles

• Family Lies and Family Ties: A Conversation with Susan Walter

  By D’Ann Drennan

• Never Silent: A Conversation with Nicole Graev Lipson

  By Isabella Fusani

Reviews

• Ode to the Migraineur: A Review of Hemicrania

  By Amanda Fields

• “You are loved. Goodbye.” A review of Sidework

  By Brianna Avenia-Tapper