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Cover Image: “Your Hiding Place” by Martha Clarkson Cover Design: Raquel Thorne PDF Design: James Lehmann i Trigger Warning noun: A brief statement alerting a reader, listener, or viewer to troubling or traumatic content ahead. ii Table of Contents Letter from Guest Editor Meggie Royer............................................................................................................. 1 Snowstorms and Trigger Warnings - Krista Cox .............................................................................................. 2 Self-Portrait in Nightgown - Sophia Jakab ........................................................................................................ 6 Unborn - Lilian-Leader Williams ....................................................................................................................... 7 I Am the Mother of Two Live Children and Three Dead - Heather Bell....................................................... 8 Nobody Down There Will Help You - Melina Coogan.................................................................................... 9 * - Simon Perchik................................................................................................................................................ 13 He1, He2, He3 - Marta Djekic........................................................................................................................... 16 Bloodlines - Tomas Bird..................................................................................................................................... 18 Bottling Plant - Jennifer Parks........................................................................................................................... 19 I Made it Through the Wilderness - Melissa Eleftherion .............................................................................. 21 Pacific Salt - Eunice Andrada............................................................................................................................ 22 An Interview with Eunice Andrada - Tiegan Dakin ...................................................................................... 23 She1 - Marta Djekic............................................................................................................................................ 25 The Only Trans Girl at the Party - Alison Rumfitt ......................................................................................... 26 Rape - Marian Kaplun Shapiro.......................................................................................................................... 28 Fishy - Sally Deskins........................................................................................................................................... 29 Body Back - Vanessa Crofskey .......................................................................................................................... 30 Mommy Issues - Allison Austad ....................................................................................................................... 33 Look, Empire - Ryder Collins............................................................................................................................ 34 In the Woods - Lisa Chavez............................................................................................................................... 36 The Human Skit - W. Jack Savage..................................................................................................................... 54 Kid Stuff - Carissa L. Stevens............................................................................................................................. 55 The Two - Shawn LaSota ................................................................................................................................... 62 Forgotten Places - Cameron Conner................................................................................................................ 70 For My Sister 1950 - Liz Dolan ......................................................................................................................... 71 Like Crying Over the Beauty of the Stars No One Else Can See - Emma Bleker........................................ 72 Emily's Keeper - Rajendra Shepherd................................................................................................................ 75 Elegy for a Child Bride - Lakshmi Mitra ......................................................................................................... 76 Open Doors - Samantha Fortenberry .............................................................................................................. 78 Little Black Dress - Ani Tascian ........................................................................................................................ 79 Last Fall in Medina County - Carl Boon.......................................................................................................... 82 Bridge - Jerry Wemple........................................................................................................................................ 83 Your Children Aren't Safe - Allison Austad..................................................................................................... 85 Pith - Meghan Trask Smith................................................................................................................................ 86 The Taste of Man - Michael Russell.................................................................................................................. 89 Growing Against the Wall - Barbara Ruth....................................................................................................... 94 Dictionary - Katia Kozachok............................................................................................................................. 95 iii Some Days Are Tougher Than Others - W. Jack Savage ................................................................................ 98 Privilege - Sam Herschel Wein.......................................................................................................................... 99 Typical Weathers - Eleanor Leonne Bennett ................................................................................................. 100 Red Hair - Norman Klein ................................................................................................................................ 101 There Were Clowns at My Funeral - Allison Austad.................................................................................... 102 Interview with Clementine von Radics - Rachel Nix ................................................................................... 103 Depression - Samantha Fortenberry .............................................................................................................. 106 Mothers Cannot - Sally Deskins ..................................................................................................................... 107 Being a Girl: A Brief Personal History of Violence - Anne Thériault ........................................................ 108 Dissociative Identity - Samantha Fortenberry .............................................................................................. 113 Advice - Dustin Pearson .................................................................................................................................. 114 Medusa, Her Word Against His - MANDEM ............................................................................................... 115 Extraction - Kate Garrett ................................................................................................................................. 116 Rising Agate - Melissa Eleftherion.................................................................................................................. 118 Morning Song - Marina Carreira.................................................................................................................... 119 Jennifer Rents a Trailer - Mary Stone............................................................................................................. 121 A Thousand Ways to Fall - Eleanor Leonne Bennett ..................................................................................